What is the principle of an automobile muffler?
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The principle of an automobile muffler is: The automobile muffler is a component used to reduce the noise generated by the engine of a motor vehicle during operation. Since the length difference between the two pipes is equal to half the wavelength of the sound wave emitted by the automobile, the two sound waves interfere with each other when superimposed, canceling out and weakening the sound intensity, thereby reducing the noise and achieving the effect of noise reduction. Automobile mufflers can be classified according to their noise reduction principles and structures into: 1. Reactive mufflers: Inside the muffler, components such as pipes and partitions form various noise reduction units like expansion chambers and resonance chambers. When sound waves propagate, they undergo reflection and interference, reducing sound energy to achieve noise reduction. 2. Impedance composite mufflers: These mufflers combine reactive noise reduction units with sound-absorbing materials, featuring characteristics of both reactive and resistive mufflers.