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Because the sounds bounce off of walls.

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Q: What property of sound allows you to hear sound waves around corners?
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Why can you hear around corners but cannot see around corners?

Sound waves have a longer wavelength which allows them to bend around corners more than light waves.


What is the bending of sound around corners?

diffraction


What wave propety allows sound waves to travel around corners?

In a perfect system Energy Waves would not travel around corners unless reflected off of something. In the case of Sound the medium of travel is the Air. The Wave is "Reflected" off of air molecules and 'travels around the corner. The motion of the air molecules 'reproduces' the sound waves' travel.


What property of sound allows it to be recorded?

The vibration of air or a material.


Which wave interaction explain why sound waves can be heard around corners?

reflection


What is a sound wave bending around a corner?

diffraction


The bending of sound waves around corners is called?

Diffraction. Your welcome to shower needed it(:


Can sound travel around corner?

Sound certainly can travel around corners. Sound can also travel through hard surfaces like walls and bathroom surfaces as well.


How does diffraction affect sound waves?

Important parts of our experience with sound involve diffraction. The fact that you can hear sounds around corners and around barriers involves both diffraction and reflection of sound.


Why you can hear a sound around a corner?

I suggest you play in the bathtub. Sound moves in the same way that waves move on the surface of the water. You will SEE how sound goes round corners.


How does diffraction allow us to hear music from another room?

Sound waves are diffracted around corners and so can be heard when the source of the sound is not in a straight line.


Is a sound a intensive property?

Sound intensity is a property of sound.