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Why does a tin can transmit sound better than air?
A tin can transmits sound better than air because it is a denser medium, allowing sound waves to travel more efficiently through it. The metal walls of the tin can reflect and amplify the sound waves, resulting in a louder and clearer transmission of sound compared to air.
Does light travel through tin?
No unless there is a hole in the peice of tin.
How does the tin can at Zoe's end make a sound?
The tin can sound is produced when vibrations from Zoe tapping the can travel along the string to your end, causing the can on your end to vibrate and create sound. This happens because the string acts as a medium for the vibrations to travel.
Can sound travel through a string?
Yes. You can demonstrate this for yourself. Use a small nail or screw to make a small hole in the bottom of each of two empty tin cans. Thread a couple of inches of one end of a ten or twenty foot string into each of the tin cans, then tie a not into the ends of the string so that the ends of the string won't come back out of the tins. With a partner hold the tins so that the string is taut between you. One of you speak into his tin whilst the other listens. You should be able to hear that the voice is carried along the string.You can google for tin cans and string for pictures and more instructions.
What string is best for tin can phones?
Try wire
What is the initial sound in the word tin?
The initial sound in the word "tin" is the voiceless alveolar stop /t/.
Where did the word tin come from?
It is an onomatopoeia, meaning that it represents the sound that tin makes when you hit it. If you bend tin, it creaks which is unusual for metals but it was not named after this sound, which appears to have no special name.
Can you smoke menthol cigarettes and travel to space?
only if you wear a tin foil hat and breath through a hepa-filter.
What is a tin number?
In The Canadian Gov't a TIN number is a Travel Identification Number.
What is tin cry?
Typical sound of Tin if a metal bar is bent. This screaming of Tin is coming from the friction/ shearing of the metal crystals.
What does rain sound like on a tin roof?
Rain sound like putter patter
How do sound waves travel through string?
This is a complex question - or rather the answer could be.In a violin for example, the strings rotate as well as vibrate.In a simple 'string and tin can phone" the waves are transverse waves carried by the taut string.Basically, your string can vibrate back and forth, normal to the string;or it may rotate round the axis along the string;or a mass may swing suspended by the string as in a pendulum.
