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Q: How are vibrations transferred through the air?
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Do tiny vibrations carry sound through the air?

Vibrations through some medium ARE sound. Vibrations through the air are just one example. The air vibrates and when the vibrations hit human ear drums, they are heard.


How can one tuning fork's vibrations cause another tuning fork to vibrate?

Vibrations are transferred from one to the other through the air. If the two have the same frequency (or a very similar frequency), resonance will occur.


How is heat transferred through liquids and solids?

By means of the atomic vibrations about their mean position.


What vibrates when you play the violin?

The bow makes the string vibrate. The vibrations are transferred through the bridge to the instrument top. Vibrations are transferred from the top to the back side through a sound post. So, pretty much the whole body vibrates.


What happenes to refrigeration heat in the condenser?

It's transferred to the air which passes through the condenser fins.


When you speak what do the vibrations have to travel through to get to the microphone?

They travel through the air.


How can sound transfer in liquid?

Same as in the air, through vibrations.


What causes sounds from guitars and pianos?

Playing the instrument cause the strings to vibrate. This vibration is then transferred to the air, and vibrations in air is basically what makes up a sound.


How do you explain sound to no hearing voice?

Explain vibrations, which they can feel. Then explain that sound is vibrations carried through the air.


How does sound move through a medium?

Vibrations are carried through the atoms in a structure. When these vibrations travel through air, they are amplified by the ear drum and sensed by nerves as sound.


True or false vibrations can travel through air and water?

Yes. Vibrations can travel through anything except space where there is a vacuum.


What are vibrations?

Disturbances/shockwaves/ripples/ through the air/water/ground.