how can a high pitch sound shatter glass but low pitch sounds cannot?
In: Physics
Not all glass gets shattered the way you are thinking (I’m assuming a glass made of glass), depending of it’s actually composition it behaves differently. But in general a glass that breaks because of a sounds is due to the sound having a frequency tyat “matches” the dimension of the glass and thus makes the glass resonate (similar effect than this famous video of a bridge going full buble gun because it resonates with the wind)
Also an aircraft breaking the wall of sound creates a sound wave so powerful (and in all frequencies) that it basically breaks anything if it’s close enough.
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