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The frequency is also lowered. They're the same thing.
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What type of wave does sound travel in?
Longitudinal Wave
Do particles of air in a sound wave move up and down?
no, they move horizontally along the direction of the sound wave movement.
Does outerspace have sound?
Outerspace has no sound. This is because outerspace is essentially devoid of matter, and matter is required for sound. Sound is a physical phenomenon of a travelling pressure wave, and in space there is essentially no gas or media to transmit a wave.
What does a decible measure?
I think the decible is a unit of measure ofpressure in a sound wave.
What determines if a sound is loud or soft?
The determining factor as to the softness or loudness of a sound is the amplitude of the sound wave. We know that sound is mechanical energy, and a source of sound will put mechanical energy into the medium through which it is going to travel. Let's look at the wave. The mechanical wave has a compression phase and a rarefaction phase. In compression, the source compresses the medium to impart energy. In the rarefaction phase, the source will act to decompress the medium. The sound will propagate outward in a series of compression and decompression phases. The difference between a loud and a softer sound is the degree to which a medium is compressed and rarefied during the process by which the sound energy is put into the medium. Fortunately there is a question (and an answer) that goes into this in a bit of detail. It is linked in the Related questions section.
A change in frequency is a change in what?
A change in frequency is a change in pitch, in terms of sound. try to picture a sine wave in your mind. When you lower the frequency of the wave, it stretches the sine wave out (Which is how the pitch of the sound is lowered. I'm assume that you're question is about Audio.) For example, if you had a sound wave at 440Hz (And is aslo the musical note "A" on the center octave), and you changed its frequency to 329.63Hz, it would then sound lower in pitch (The musical note of "E") I hope that helps ;) ~Mitch
What gives a sound wave its pitch and intensity?
A sound wave's pitch is determined by its frequency; that is its cycles per unit of time. The sound wave's intensity or volume is determined by its amplitude; the maximum crest of a sound wave.
How do you raise the pitch of the sound caused by a sound wave?
increase the freguency of the wave
Which feature of a sound wave determines the pitch of the sound?
That's the wave's frequency.
Does a sound's pitch depend on its loudness?
No. A sound's pitch depends on the frequency of the wave.
The frequency of a sound wave determines?
the pitch of the sound.
The frequency of its sound wave determines its what?
The sensation of a frequencies is commonly referred to as the pitch of a sound. A high pitch sound corresponds to a high frequency sound wave and a low pitch sound corresponds to a low frequency sound wave.
What dose the frequency of a sound wave determine?
The frequency of a sound wave will determine the pitch (or note).
What does the freqency of a sound wave affect?
The frequency of a sound wave affects the pitch of the sound. If the frequency of a wave increases causing more waves for every second, the pitch will go up, and vice-versa.
The pitch of a sound wave is its wavelength?
Kind of. The pitch of a sound wave is its frequency, and because frequency = 1 / wavelength its pitch is related to the wave length. So to answer, no, the pitch of sound is not the wavelength itself, rather it is the inverse of the wavelength ( 1/wavelength)falseACJM
Are loudness and pitch properties of sound or property of waves?
Loudness and pitch are properties of sound which can be determined by looking at the sound wave. You have a high pitch when the frequency of the wave increases or the wavelenght (lambda) decreases. When the amplitude increases the loudness of the wave increases as well.
Pitch describes how high or low a sound is. The pitch of a sound is most dependent upon the of the sound wave.?
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