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Can you use sound waves like a rocket to move through space in a ship of some kind so can sound waves propel you forward in space?
Sound can only move through matter. For example, when you speak, the vibration of your vocal chords create vibrations in the air, and each vibrating air molecule causes adjacent air molecules to vibrate, and those air molecules make other air molecules vibrate, and so on as the air "propagates" the sound waves. Space is a vacuum, so sound cannot travel through space.
What must happen in order for sound waves to form?
Something must vibrate, to make the air (or whatever else the sound travels through) vibrate.
Sound energy cannot pass through empty space true or false?
True, sound waves can travel in all three mediums , solids liquids and gases We hear sounds in gas medium. Sonar is an application for sound in liquid. Sound can make solids vibrate upon moving.
Is collecting sound the same as captureing sound waves?
Sound waves are what make up sound (sound waves=sound) so I would suppose so.
What causes the compressions and rarefractions that make up sound waves?
vibrating surfaces. Vocal chords vibrate at a particular frequency to produce a particular tone. Violin stings, car engines, woofers,
Molecules vibrate do they make a sound?
Not in the range of human hearing.
Can you use sound waves like a rocket to move through space in a ship of some kind so can sound waves propel you forward in space?
Sound can only move through matter. For example, when you speak, the vibration of your vocal chords create vibrations in the air, and each vibrating air molecule causes adjacent air molecules to vibrate, and those air molecules make other air molecules vibrate, and so on as the air "propagates" the sound waves. Space is a vacuum, so sound cannot travel through space.
What must happen in order for sound waves to form?
Something must vibrate, to make the air (or whatever else the sound travels through) vibrate.
Do sound waves make molucules move?
When you say "sound wave", you MEAN moving molecules.
Describe what must happen to make a sound?
sound is simply the vibration of air molecules. so, sound occurs whenever air molecules are vibrated. but in order for us as humans to hear that sound, the air molecules have to vibrate within a certain frequency range
What is the useful energy in a whistle?
acoustic energy, when you make sound it is audible because it is in sound waves that move through the atmosphere and into you ear to vibrate your eardrum
Do earthquake make sounds?
Yes, they do. They make a rumbling sound as they vibrate.
Sound energy cannot pass through empty space true or false?
True, sound waves can travel in all three mediums , solids liquids and gases We hear sounds in gas medium. Sonar is an application for sound in liquid. Sound can make solids vibrate upon moving.
Discuss what sound is?
Sound is something you hear. It is a vibration which travels in waves and then hits your eardrum to make it vibrate, that's how you hear it. It is the second fastest thing, first is light.
Why sound is not transmitted to a vacuum?
What we hear as sound is caused by pressure waves in the air which make small hairs deep inside our ears vibrate. Since there is no air or anything at all inside of a vacuum, there are no molecules to bump into each other to transfer the pressure wave through space.
Why cant sound waves travel through empty space?
Sound waves are mechanical waves, NOT electromagnetic waves. Mechanical waves need a substance to pass through, that is, they need some sort of surface to vibrate against to send compression waves through to the surrounding air. Electromagnetic waves however may travel through empty space as they have no need for a surface, instead, they need only electric and magnetic fields that are present in empty space to pass through. (vibrating electric fields will, in turn, vibrate the magnetic field, which will then trigger a nearby electric field to vibrate, which will make another magnetic field to vibrate, and this is how electromagnetic waves may travel through empty space, but mechanical waves may not)
Can a vibrating object be a source of sound?
Yes of course. But with enough amplitude to make the medium to vibrate and there by waves reaching the sensing ears ie ours
