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Does sound waves cause objects to vibrate?
Sound waves are detected by the fact that the waves can cause objects to vibrate. The vibrations from the sound waves must be converted into a signal and then amplified and processed. Your ear and a microphone are common detectors of sound.
What do eardrums do when sound waves reach them?
The eardrums are like an omnidirectional microphone. The sound pressure vibrates the membrane (diaphragm) of the eardrum and the microphone only from one side.
What is the energy transfer when you use a microphone?
The sound waves cause a diaphragm in the microphone to vibrate. The mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy.
Is a microphone a converter of sound energy to electrical energy and why?
Yes the microphone converts sound waves/vibrations into electrical energy/signals. This is done so that the sound can be recorded for storage and playback or transmitted to some distant location (the the sound could not reach).
How can you prove that sound is a form of energy?
You can prove that sound waves have energy by using them to do work. Consider a microphone: when you speak into it, the diaphragm vibrates (i.e. it gains kinetic energy). This shows that sound waves have the capacity to do work and therefore have energy.
What is an microphone?
A microphone is an object that is to amplify or record sound waves.
How does sound travel through a microphone?
Sound waves enter the microphone and are then converted to an analog electric current.
What is microphone and its functions?
A microphone is a device that picks up sound waves, converts the waves in to electrical pulses to be sent down cables or by wifi. A speaker receives the electrical pulses and converts the pulses back in to sound waves that a person can hear and understand.
What does a microphone and speaker have in common?
They both convert between electrical impulses and sound waves. The microphone converts sound waves into electrical impulses and the loudspeaker converts electrical impulses into sound waves.
How can you increase intensity of a sound?
You can amplify the sound waves by microphone, amplifier and loudspeaker.
What converts sound waves to an electrical signal?
Microphone can do this job.
What changes your voices sound waves into digital sounds?
microphone
What does a microphone convert electrical energy into?
First forget the energyy. Our ears and the microphone diaphragms are sensors which are moved by the sound pressure (not by energy). The acoustical sound waves are converted to electrical voltage waves.
What technology does a microphone use?
A microphone is a device that converts mechanical pressure waves or sound in air into electrical voltage waves. Speaking into a microphone excites (moves) a diaphragm that is coupled to a device that creates an electrical voltage proportional to the produced sound pressure.
Does sound waves cause objects to vibrate?
Sound waves are detected by the fact that the waves can cause objects to vibrate. The vibrations from the sound waves must be converted into a signal and then amplified and processed. Your ear and a microphone are common detectors of sound.
Is a electret microphone a transducer?
yes, it transduces sound waves to voltage variations
What part of a microphone converts sound waves into an electrical signal?
The diaphragm
