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SOUND a range of compression wave frequencies to which the human ear is sensitive

SOUND a range of compression wave frequencies to which the human ear is sensitive. The audio spectrum extends from approximately 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz . Range of Some Common Sounds. Intensity Range for Some Common Sounds. Sounds are produced by vibrating matter . 1. reeds.

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SOUND a range of compression wave frequencies to which the human ear is sensitive

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  1. SOUND a range of compression wave frequencies to which the human ear is sensitive

  2. Theaudio spectrum extends from approximately 20 Hzto20,000 Hz.

  3. Range of Some Common Sounds

  4. Intensity Range for Some Common Sounds

  5. Sounds are produced byvibrating matter. 1. reeds 3. membranes 4. air columns 2. strings Sound is a mechanical wave (longitudinal). It will not travel through a vacuum.

  6. Sounds possess the characteristics and properties that are common to all waves.

  7. Just like all longitudinal (compression) waves, sound waves possess a velocity, frequency, wavelength, phase, period, and amplitude. Sound waves also reflect, refract, diffract, and interfere.

  8. The velocity of sound in air depends on the air temperature. The speed of sound in dry air is 331.5 m/s at 0 ºC. This speed increases with temperature: about 0.6 m/s for every 1 ºC increase in temperature.

  9. Sound generally travels fastest in solids and slowest in gases, but there are some exceptions. Medium Velocity (m/s) Medium Velocity (m/s) Air 330 Carbon dioxide 260 Helium 930 Hydrogen 1270 Oxygen 320 Water 1460 Sea water 1520 Mercury 1450 Glass 5500 Granite 5950 Lead 1230 Pine wood 3320 Copper 3800 Aluminium 5100

  10. The human ear relates amplitude to loudness and frequency to pitch.

  11. Doppler Effect • A tone is not always heard at the same frequency at • which it is emitted. • When a train sounds its horn as it passes by, the pitch of the horn changes from high to low. • Any time there is relative motion between the source of a sound and the receiver of it, there is a difference between the actual frequency and the observed frequency.

  12. *Fact* All objects have a natural frequency of vibration. Resonance- the inducing of vibrations of a natural rate by a vibrating source having the same frequency “sympathetic vibrations”

  13. Famous Bridge Collapses: Evidences of Resonance? Tacoma Narrows link Others link

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