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Q: Does a bigger tuning fork make a lower sound?
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What can you get when you combine quartz sound magnets and a tuning fork?

A tuning fork combined with a quartz sound magnet.


What happens to the sound when you hit a tuning fork and put it in a cupboard?

The sound would be muted if a tuning fork is hit and then placed into a cupboard.


What has more harmonics in its sound a tuning fork or guitar?

A guitar is a far more complex structure than a tuning fork, and has more harmonics. The whole design of a tuning fork is intended to give as simple and pure a sound as possible, since that is the easiest type of sound to use when you are trying to tune an instrument. You wouldn't want harmonics in a tuning fork.


How waves are created and propagate when a tuning fork is struck?

Because of the tuning fork's vibrations. It creates compressional sound waves.


A tuning fork of frequency 300Hz will resonate if a sound wave incident on it has a frequency of what?

300Hz is the natural frequency of the tuning fork hence if a sound wave of same frequency hits the fork then RESONANCE occurs


If one tuning fork vibrates at 340 Hz and a second one vibrates at 640 Hz which fork sends out a longer wavelength?

Lower frequency equates to a longer wavelength, so the 340 Hz tuning fork would emit a longer wavelength sound.


What vibrates between the tuning fork and the eardrum to carry the sound?

The air experiences a longitudinal pressure wave, which some might call a vibration, as it transmits sound from a tuning fork to the ear.


What fundamental characteristics of the sound produced by a tuning fork depends on its frequency?

The characteristics that determine the frequency with which a tuning fork will vibrate are the length and mass of the tines.


What does the sound travel through when the tuning fork is not touching the desk?

air


What does the amplitude of a sound wave determine in a tuning fork?

Loudness or volume.


When a tuning fork is pressed to your head where does the sound seem to come from?

temples


Which sound is more complex the button on the tone dialer or tuning fork?

I think it may be a unning fork