why is plastic so loud compared to other materials? Why is it louder when it is touched than cloth is?
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This doesn’t explain it like you’re five, but there was some attention to this question in the late 90’s –
[https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/139th/kramer.htm](https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/139th/kramer.htm) [https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.1465](https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.1465) [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996APS..MAR.O2305K/abstract](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996APS..MAR.O2305K/abstract)
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