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Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.
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What machine is used to measure sound waves?
what machine can be used to measure sound waves
What does sound waves play a role in your daily life?
ahhh well if there was no such thing as sound waves everyone would ahh be deaf!
Why can you not hear the echo if you stand 20 meter away and shout towards it?
You are too close to the surface from which the sound waves are reflected. As a result you brain cannot distinguish between the original sound waves and the reflexted sound waves (the echo).
Why do acoustics need trigonometry?
When people are taught trigenometry in school it is usually just for finding the angles of a triangle. But the sine and cosine functions are actually waves if you were to draw them on a graph. Acoustics is sound waves, and by mapping sound waves into trigonometric waves we can do calculations on them like addition.
What is the Unit of measurement for sound?
Sound waves are basically mechanical waves. i.e they require a medium to pass.The Unit of measurement for Sound is actually dependent upon what physical feature of sound do you wish to measure. The most commonly used units used are dB (decibel) and Hz (hertz).
Describe how sound waves are travel?
Sound waves are caused by vibrations and travel as longitudinal waves which cause by the vibration of the molecules in air (the molecules dont actually move)
How much sound is generating by earth's revolution?
It produces some sort of waves not equivalent to what we normally describe sound as.
describe the longitudinal nature of sound waves?
waves in which the motion of the individual particles of the medium is in a direction that is parallel to the direction of energy transport.
Describe what happens to waves during constructive displacement and after they have passed by each other?
the sound is displaced which for means that a new sound will come.
What word is used to describe a reflected sound?
The word used to describe a reflected sound is "echo." Echoes occur when sound waves bounce off surfaces and return to the listener's ears, creating a repeated, softer version of the original sound.
Are radio waves light sound waves?
No, radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation, like light waves, while sound waves are mechanical waves that require a medium (such as air) to travel through. Radio waves travel at the speed of light and can travel through a vacuum, while sound waves cannot.
Describe how a sound travels through air when a student taps his pencil on a desk?
When a physical object moves in air, it causes vibrations which lead to compression waves in the air. These waves travel in the form of sound.
What are labels to sound waves?
Labels to sound waves include frequency (pitch), amplitude (volume), and wavelength (distance between wave peaks). These labels help describe the characteristics of a sound wave and how it is perceived by the human ear.
If tow sound waves have the sames frequeency but different amplitudes describe what you would here?
louder and softer
What are properties of waves?
There are different kinds of wave, such as sound waves, electromagnetic waves, water waves etc. So the first property I would describe as the wave medium. Then you would have the additional properties of amplitude and frequency.
What sound waves do?
Sound waves carry sound
Does sound produce waves?
Yes, sound produces waves known as sound waves. These waves are vibrations that travel through a medium, such as air or water, and are detected by our ears as sound.
