Natural Science Forum / Physics / Acoustics / November 2005

My apologies, I have not had time to look through old posts to see if
this type of problem has already been adressed.
I am a rookie mechanical engineer working on a low frequency noise
problem on an offshore oil platform. However I am onshore based so I

Fingernails scraping down a blackboard... the scream of a baby... your
neighbour's dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This
is what a new website from Salford University is trying to find out
(www.sound101.org). I thought that people in this group might be