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Sound moves through air by causing a vibration in air molecules in a wave form. This process is similar to dropping a pebble into a still pool of water. The waves move away from the originating source, reflecting off surfaces (the source of an echo), and eventually dissipate as the initial energy of the sound source is diffused by the expanding volume of air it needs to move, coupled with the loss of energy from friction. These vibrations cause your ear drum to vibrate, which is transmitted via the occicles (the three little ear bones) to the cochlea, and onto the brain via the auditory nerve. Particularly low-frequency sound is transmitted not through the ear drum but by vibration of the spongy mastoid bone, which is the arch of skull located behind the ear.
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∙ 13y agoAir is made of tiny particles of different gases. Sounds cause these particles to vibrate. These vibrations move through the air as sound waves when one particle vibrates and passe on this vibration to the next and the next along the way. When these vibrating particles reach your ear, they vibrate your eardrum which passes the sound on to tiny bones which pass it on to your brain.
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∙ 13y agothe particles in the air and transmitted through radiation and when something gets in its way it slows down and the particles vibrate slower
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∙ 6y agoSound travels because of the sound waves.
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∙ 14y agoby vibrating
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Why does sound not travel through space?
Sound does move through space. It doesn't move though empty space, i.e. a vaccuum. In outer space there is a vaccuum (though not necessarily a perfect vaccuum).Sound is caused by vibrations in a medium such as air (or water or wood). These vibrations compress and rarefy the medium. The vibrations move through the medium as waves.In a vaccuum, there is no medium thus there is no sound.
Explain why cant sound travel through vacuums?
there is no air in a vaccum. and sound needs air for the sound waves to travel through.
Why a person at a rock concert will not feel gusts of wind coming out of the speakers?
Air is just a medium that sound waves use as something to move through. The air doesn't actually move however. Once the sound wave has passed through the air, all the air molecule return to their original position. That's not to say the air doesn't move for a moment, think of waves on the shore. If you are close enough, and the air only has a small area to move back-and-forth in, then you could feel the air moving. Place you hand over the hole in a sub-woofer box, you'll feel the air moving.
What branch of science studies how sound waves move through the air?
Acoustics is the branch of physics which deals with sound and sound waves.
Vibrations cause sounds yet if you move your hand back and fourth through the air you don't hear a sound explain?
You can't move your hand fast enough, the lowest frequency sound is about 20 cycles per second, if you could move your hand that fast, you might hear sound.
Do sound waves move faster through cold or warm air?
warm air
Why don't sound waves move in a vacuum?
There is no air for it to travel through
What can move fastest through air a hawk light sound a rocket or a jet?
Light.
What branch of science studies how sound waves move through air?
Physical science
How does sound move through a medium?
Vibrations are carried through the atoms in a structure. When these vibrations travel through air, they are amplified by the ear drum and sensed by nerves as sound.
How does a sound travel through?
Sound, which is mechanical energy, travels through a solid by setting up a mechanical compression wave in that solid. When the compression wave of the sound in air strikes the solid, it compresses the solid. It isn't much, but the energy delivered by the air is transferred into the solid. Waves of compression and rarefaction move through the solid as they did in air, but move much faster in a solid.
Why do sound waves move faster through the ground than through the air?
particles of matter are packed more loosely in the ground than in the air.
What are waves that need a media?
Mechanical wavesMechanical waves need a medium to move through. An example is sound moving through the air. Sound is a compressional mechanical wave and the medium is the air. That's why there isn't any sound in space.
How does sound travel through a solid?
Sound, which is mechanical energy, travels through a solid by setting up a mechanical compression wave in that solid. When the compression wave of the sound in air strikes the solid, it compresses the solid. It isn't much, but the energy delivered by the air is transferred into the solid. Waves of compression and rarefaction move through the solid as they did in air, but move much faster in a solid.
Can you use sound waves like a rocket to move through space in a ship of some kind so can sound waves propel you forward in space?
Sound can only move through matter. For example, when you speak, the vibration of your vocal chords create vibrations in the air, and each vibrating air molecule causes adjacent air molecules to vibrate, and those air molecules make other air molecules vibrate, and so on as the air "propagates" the sound waves. Space is a vacuum, so sound cannot travel through space.
Does sound move through water?
Sound moves through water. It just moves more quickly than in air, so it's harder for humans to identify it.
Can sound travel through air and evidence?
Sound travels through air. Experiment: Listen. Result: Do you hear anything? That sound has traveled through air.
