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The sound wave must match the glass's natural resonating frequency, which means the frequency that it vibrates naturally at, when the glass picks this up, it vibrates with it due to resonance. The glass can vibrate so violently that it shatters.
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Can sound produce enough energy to move an object from one place to another?
Yes. Sound travels through the air in the same way as a wave travels along the ocean. The water of the wave simply oscillates up and down and transfers it's energy to the water next to it. The wave itself does not move along the surface, it just appears to. Sound is also like a wave and it is the air that oscillates, transferring it's energy to the air particles next to it. The frequency of it's oscillation, remains constant and is transferred to whatever it comes into contact with. The cardboard cone of a loud speaker, vibrates and sends out oscillating waves which come into contact with your ear or anything it hits. Whatever the sound wave hits, is forced to vibrate at the same frequency. If the power of a sound wave is very strong (very loud) it can vibrate something it hits, and cause it to break. Sound waves can break a wine glass if the glass is very thin and the sound is very powerful (loud). I have seen this done, it is real. That of course is the only kind of motion that sound can cause. It can only make things vibrate, but that is still called motion (movement). Sound can not travel through a perfect vacuum, because there is nothing to vibrate.
What does it mean when you hear a glass break?
Ultimately sound is the result of something pushing air back and forth. These pressure/displacement disturbances travel to your ear drum and cause you ear drum to vibrate at the same frequency as the object that disturbed the air in the first place did. In the case of a glass breaking, at moment the glass, say hits the floor, the entire glass would vibrate for a very short moment. After it breaks into pieces, the individual pieces would begin to vibrate at their higher natural frequencies. All these vibrations eventually find their way to your ears by way of the air. Also, it means it's time to buy a new glass.
What breaks when hit against a hard surface?
Anything that is less hard than the surface. If you use steel, something like chalk or graphite would break; if you used diamond, everything* would break.
What happens when sound hits a thin membrane?
What happens when sound hits a thin membrane is that it vibrates the tympanic membrane. The tympanic membrane is also known as the eardrum.
What happens when sound hits a surface?
It bounces back.
Can a glass break before it hits the ground?
It is unlikely that a glass will break before it hits the ground. The glass may experience tiny fractures which will cause it to break upon impact.
Can people sing so high that they can shatter glass?
Sometimes a glass is tuned to a certain frequency or note. If a person hits that note, the glass will shatter.
How can sound cause destruction?
if it hits the resonating frequency of a certain material, it will shake itself to bits. Like those videos you see of some one singing so high pitched they shatter glass
What is acid glass?
it's when you do at least 100 hits of LSD and then try to break a car windshield with your head that's why it's called Acid Glass
How does flying supersonic aircraft shatter glass of the window panes?
Moving faster than the speed of sound creates a shockwave. This shockwave is a wave of very high air pressure. When it hits glass it pushes on it and if the pressure of the shockwave is higher than the strength of the glass, the glass breaks.
Why do ants burn under a magnifying glass?
When you place a magnifying glass over an ant and the sun is out, the light from the sun hits the convex glass and becomes concentrated at a certain point. That point will eventually become hot enough to burn the ant.
Can a fresh snowball - if very tightly squished together - break glass?
Yes, but not all glass under ordinary circumstances. Ordinary window glass can be broken by a snowball (I have seen it happen). Plate glass and automotive glass are more resistant to breakage. Also, snowballs sometimes have extraneous objects, such as pebbles, packed into them, and these can break even more resistant glass. All of this depends, of course, on how hard the snowball is thrown. If the person throwing the snowball is moving, for example in a vehicle, or the snowball is thrown downward to accelerate under gravity, or the snowball hits a moving vehicle, even a soft snowball could break resistant glass.
What can cause your car to make a screech sound when backing up?
Mine does the same. I'm fairly certain it's the break pad rubbing against something b/c the squeek noise only hits at a certain rotation of the wheel (similar to what would happen with a brake pad rubbing the bent rim on a bicycle). Anyways, likely problem is that so start there
Can sound produce enough energy to move an object from one place to another?
Yes. Sound travels through the air in the same way as a wave travels along the ocean. The water of the wave simply oscillates up and down and transfers it's energy to the water next to it. The wave itself does not move along the surface, it just appears to. Sound is also like a wave and it is the air that oscillates, transferring it's energy to the air particles next to it. The frequency of it's oscillation, remains constant and is transferred to whatever it comes into contact with. The cardboard cone of a loud speaker, vibrates and sends out oscillating waves which come into contact with your ear or anything it hits. Whatever the sound wave hits, is forced to vibrate at the same frequency. If the power of a sound wave is very strong (very loud) it can vibrate something it hits, and cause it to break. Sound waves can break a wine glass if the glass is very thin and the sound is very powerful (loud). I have seen this done, it is real. That of course is the only kind of motion that sound can cause. It can only make things vibrate, but that is still called motion (movement). Sound can not travel through a perfect vacuum, because there is nothing to vibrate.
Why is a falling glass less likely to break on carpet?
It is the force exerted within the glass when it hits the floor that breaks it. If the glass falls on a hard floor like concrete then the force is very big because the floor has no "give." Effectively the bit of the glass that hits the floor stops instantly but the rest of the glass following behind is still moving. The force within the glass is bigger than the tensile strength of the material and so it fails. If the glass falls on a carpet then the carpet has some "give." The glass slows down over a few millimeters by squashing the carpet. This massively reduces the forces within the glass and gives it a fighting chance of staying in one piece.
What does the word percussive instrument mean?
It means that in one way or another, something hits something else, creating a sound. For example: a drum is a percussion instrument because you have to hit it or touch it in a certain way to create sound. :)
What does it mean when you hear a glass break?
Ultimately sound is the result of something pushing air back and forth. These pressure/displacement disturbances travel to your ear drum and cause you ear drum to vibrate at the same frequency as the object that disturbed the air in the first place did. In the case of a glass breaking, at moment the glass, say hits the floor, the entire glass would vibrate for a very short moment. After it breaks into pieces, the individual pieces would begin to vibrate at their higher natural frequencies. All these vibrations eventually find their way to your ears by way of the air. Also, it means it's time to buy a new glass.
