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diffraction
Abbie Hyatt
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∙ 9y agoDiffraction helps waves bend around corners. Waves with long wavelengths have higher degrees of diffraction than those with short wavelengths. Since sound waves have wavelengths of about a meter, they can travel around corners better than light waves that have very small wavelengths.
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∙ 13y agoWaves bend around corners in a process called diffraction. The amount by which a wave is diffracted, or bent, as it passes by an object, is proportional to its wavelength. Therefore, the longer the wavelength (the lower the pitch of sound), the more the wave will bend around corners.
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In summary, the lower the wavelength, the more the corresponding sound bends around corners.
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∙ 11y agoBecause the sound wave is a variation in air pressure and the light wave is not.
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Sound travels in what kind of wave?
Sound is a longitudinal, mechanical wave that requires a medium.
What is the result of a reflected sound wave?
The result of a reflected sound wave is obviously an echo.
What is the difference between sound and visible light in their wave lenght?
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.
How do you think the wave from a loud sound compares to the wave from a soft sound?
The amplitude (The height of the wave) of the wave increases as the sound gets louder.
What is determined by amplitude of a sound wave?
the strength or volume of the sound wave :)
What is diffraction of waves?
The apparent of wave through,around small obstacles and the spreading out of wave past small openings. When thinking of diffraction of a wave think of shining a flashlight around a corner. The light bends around the corner but there is a place where it is dark and the light does not hit. Diffraction of a wave is basically the wave bending around an object then dispersing out.
What is the bending of a wave around an object?
Defraction.
What is the term for the blending overlaping sound wave frequencies through interference?
Sound quality is the term for the bending of overlapping sound wave frequencies through interference.
What is the term for variations in the loudness of sound caused by wave interference?
Beats
What Is the term for the blending of overlapping sound wave frequency through interference?
Sound quality is the term for the bending of overlapping sound wave frequencies through interference.
What is bending of a light wave around an object?
diffraction is the answer
What is the bending of a light wave around an object?
diffraction is the answer
What is the bending of a wave as it passes around a barrier?
diffraction
Bending of a light wave around an object how?
diffraction
The bending of a wave around a barrier or an opening?
diffraction
The bending of a wave as it passes an edge or an opening is called?
Diffraction. Bending of light/sound as it moves from one medium to another - Refraction.
What do you call the bending of the wave around an objects?
I call it 'diffraction'.
