![]() "If I snap my fingers, the sound is originating when your finger actually slams into the fleshy part of your thumb or your hand," he says.īut Bhamla and his team wanted to know more about the physics involved, so they put sensors on their fingers and then snapped with rubber gloves on, with lotion on and with metal thimbles on their fingertips.Īs they tested the different variables, they filmed high-speed video. He says the sound of snapping is fairly easy to explain. ![]() Bhamla co-authored a new study of finger snapping that was published last week by The Royal Society.
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