A reflecting plate type silencer pipe including a reflecting plate is
provided for reducing a dominant frequency noise passing through a
pipeline. Sound waves propagated in the pipeline as a one-dimensional
plane wave are divided into two, that is, sound waves advancing straight
along the pipeline and sound waves caused to pass through a bypass route
by the reflecting plate thereby being delayed in phase. Both of the sound
waves are joined again so as to synchronously advance in the same
direction and in parallel to each other with the sound waves being the
same in amplitude and opposite in phase to each other, and wave
interference is effected between the sound waves, whereby wave
propagation energy of the sound wave of the frequency to be silenced
passing through the pipeline is selectively dissipated.