What type of wave is a sound wave?

Answer 1

A sound wave looks like a ripple in the air. The vibrations are not up and down as depicted in most drawings, the are compressions in the air, getting larger the further they are away from the source. in order to see them, you must have very expensive technology, and must have a good eye.

Answer 2

Sound waves are:

• Mechanical Waves
• Longitudinal Waves
• Pressure Waves
• Compression Waves

Sound waves are mechanical waves since they must travel through a medium such as air, water, or solids in order to be heard. Sound waves cannot move through a vacuum.

Answer 3

A sound wave is essentially fast changing sound pressure. Longitudinal sound waves need a medium to travel through in order to exist e.g mostly air, water, metal...

A sound wave is the pattern of disturbance caused by the movement of sound pressure changes traveling through a medium (such as air, water, or any other liquid or solid matter) as it propagates away from the source of the sound. The source is some object that causes a vibration, such as a ringing telephone, or a person's vocal chords. The vibration disturbs the particles in the surrounding medium; those particles disturb those next to them, and so on. The pattern of the disturbance creates outward movement in a wave pattern, like waves of seawater on the ocean. The wave carries the sound through the medium, usually in all directions and less intensely as it moves farther from the source. Think, what moves your ear drums and what moves the diaphragm of a microphone? It's the changing of acoustic pressure.

The idea that sound moves in waves goes back (at least) to about 240 B.C. The Greek philosopher Chrysippus (c. 240 B.C.), the Roman architect and engineer Vetruvius (c. 25 B.C.), and the Roman philosopher Boethius (A.D. 480-524) each theorized that sound movement might take a wave form.
A sound wave is a longitudinal wave with frequency between 20 to 20,000 Hertz.

It can travel through solids, liquids, and gases but not vacuum.

Longitudinal wave are the ones in which the particles of the medium oscillate along the direction of propagation of the waves.

Answer 4

A sound wave is a mechanical wave. The mechanical energy of the wave is transferred into the medium in which it is going to travel, and that medium carries it.

Desday;Its a vibration that starts in your voice box(or other source) and then travels through air as molecules and then someone hears it.

Answer 5

Sound waves are vibrations which are transmitted through liquids, gases and solids. Also the higher the frequency of a sound wave, the higher pitched the sound will be and vise versa.

Answer 6

A sound wave in the air is called a Longitudinal wave.