The frequency of all electrical waves is measured in cycles per second or Hertz, sound waves or audio is the lower range of the spectrum from one Hz to about ten Kilo Hz where the frequency is to high for human or animal hearing that is where radio waves or radio frequency start up to many Giga Hz where the different light frequencies start like white light, infra red, ultra violet and X-ray ETC.
The differences between radio waves and sound waves are as follows:
Sound waves are mechanical vibrations in a medium.
With acoustic waves (or sound waves) something - like a whistle, drum, rock band, baby ... etc. has caused differences in the pressure of the material that the wave is traveling through. It's the rate at which these pressure variation occur which make one sound a higher pitch (frequency) than another. These are longitudinal waves, that is the change in pressure occurs along the direction of travel of the wave.
Electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, light, etc., are the result of variations in electric and magnetic fields, not air movement. These waves are transverse waves, the change in electric and magnetic fields occurs transverse or perpendicular to the direction of travel of the wave.
We commonly experience acoustic waves in the air and it is acoustic waves that the ear can detect, however acoustic waves can travel through all kinds of materials. That's why you can hear under water or in the old western movies someone would put their ear to the ground or to the rail of a railroad.
Acoustic waves generally travel a lot slower than electromagnetic waves, but the speed of each is dependent on the characteristics of the medium that it is traveling through. See the related questions for information.
Radio waves can carry sound signals. But by definition radio waves are not sound waves. Radio waves can travel in a vacuum, but sound waves need a physical medium.
To explain the apparent contradiction, the sound wave is converted to an electrical signal version that is then used to modulate the radio signal.
No it is not
The differences between light and sound are as follows:
Sound wave is a mechanical wave which badly needs a material medium to get propagated
But radio waves are electromagntic waves which could even travel through vacuum
Sound wave has velocity of the order of meter just 330 m/s
But radio wave travels at incredible speed 300,000,000 m/s
Radiowaves meduim- elecromagnetic feilds
soundwaves medium- matter
speed of sound in air- 330m/s
speed of light in vaccum- 3*10^8 m/s
radiowaves- transverse
soundwaves- longitudanal
Difference is in their frequency, audible sound waves is between 12 Hz and 20,000 Hz, Ultrasound waves is any sound that has a frequency beyond the 20,000 Hz limit
frequency
Sound wave is is generated by a vibrating object.Whereas, seismic wave is the vibration generated by an earthquake or explosion.
Water has substance and weight behind it . Light, well that's photons. You can feel them, that's about it .
The question makes little sense, but sound is a longitudinal wave, light is a transverse wave. Light avergaes around 500nm wavelength, sound audible to the human ear ranges from a few cm to 20m or so.
sound does not belong to the list.
Microwaves and sound waves are similar because they are electromagnetic waves. The main difference between the two types of waves is the length of the wave. Sound waves are longer than microwaves.
you figure it out
Wavelength.
They're very different. A sound wave is a longitudinal wave and a radio wave is a transverse wave, radio waves are in the same family as light because they're electromagnetic waves whereas sound waves are just caused by particles passing on a vibration.
No difference at all. Radio waves are one of many types of electromagnetic waves.
Radio waves are electromagnetic radiation.
The difference is that a low wave have long and smooth wave and a high wave has skinny and cramped togetther waves
The decoder seperates the sound wave from the rest of the radio wave.
In a radio you have the conversion of radio wave energy to sound wave energy.
A radio wave travels about 874,000 times as fast as a sound wave,plus it doesn't need any material to move through, as sound does.
"Radio wave" is not like the others. "Radio wave" doesn't belong.
Properties of radio wave ar: sound, uses of antenna, hz.
The difference is their wavelengths. That means that their frequencies are different, and also the amount of energy carried by each photon.