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Q: Would a guitar string vibrate forever in the vacuum of space?
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What was invented first Electric or an an electric vacuum cleaner?

the vacuums go back to the mid 1800s but they became electric in 1910 for the vacuum cleaner , 1931 for the electric guitar.


What would you here if you played a guitar in outer space?

Well the way that creatures with ears hear sounds is via sound wave transmissions through the air around everything down on the surface of the planet. When you pluck or strum the strings of a guitar, or any stringed instrument, on Earth they will vibrate at particular frequencies that causes the molecules in the air around them to also vibrate at that rate by shaking and bumping into them. The body of the guitar contains a hole in it beneath the strings to allow this vibration in the air molecules around the strings to transmit into the body cavity of air molecules. This amplifies the sound and allows you to hear it better by then transmitting the vibrations to the air molecules around it and into your ear. Space, on the other hand, is a vacuum. There is a miniscule amount of molecules floating about in outer space. So if you had brought your guitar up with you and began strumming away, the strings would shake and vibrate just as they would on Earth, but because of the absence of a substance to bump up against there would be no way to transmit the sound waves. You would be able to see your guitar strings shake though, since light waves transmit in a different manner that is not dependent on a medium like air molecules. This principle pertains to all outer space related sounds in fact. Any time you see a spaceship in space, its rocket engines may be blasting away, but you actually would not be able to experience the sound unless you were aboard that ship (or it was something nearby that blasted molecules at your ship). If, by some miracle, you were able to sustain holding your head outside in space and tried to listen, your ears would still be devoid of our precious air molecules and so you would hear nothing (unless there was something nearby that blasted molecules into your ears).


How to Check vacuum on 1987 Chevrolet celebrity?

Take a vacuum hose off at the intake manifold and put a vacuum gauge on the port, then read the vacuum with the engine running.


What is the most accurate instrument of checking a deep vacuum?

electronic vacuum gauge


2002 ford expedition max ac only blows out thru defrost vents?

Check for vacuum leak--either under dash or in engine compartment Check for bad vacuum motors under dash Defrost is the default position for this system There is a vacuum resovoir located behind your battery , it is for this condition. When you accel your engine doesn't produce vacuum due to the throttle plate being open so a resovoir is there to hold a vacuum reserve so that when there is low vacuum produced by the engine there will be reserve to hold the vacuum motor applied preventing the air from changing direction in your dash. When there is no vacuum the direction is at the defrost vents if you have a broken hose or no vacuum your ac would blow out the defrost all the time But since it happens when you accel it sounds like your vacuum resovoir is cracked thus not allowing it to hold a vacuum

Related questions

Why sound cannot travel in a vacium?

Sound is not an electromagnetic wave, which can pass through a vacuum, but a vibration wave which requires matter to vibrate. A vacuum has no matter to vibrate, therefor sound cannot pass through it.


Why can not heat be conducted by vacuum?

No heat OR electricity can be conducted in a vacuum because of the mere fact that a vacuum has no particles in it that can vibrate to produce heat in the first place


Where can't sound travel through?

A vacuum, there are no oxygen particles for it to make vibrate.


Why Heat can not be passed in vacuum?

there are no molecules present to vibrate and thereby create heat


Where can sound waves not go?

Sound waves do not propagate in a vacuum, since they are basically vibrations (compressions and rarefactions) in a medium, and in a vacuum there is no matter to vibrate.


What causes your vehicle to idle high and vibrate in park but when you are driving it is smooth?

I would look for a vacuum leak.


How does vacuum travel sound?

Sound is carried by vibrations moving through a material, whether the material is solid, liquid or gaseous. A vacuum is the absence of material and therefore there is no material to vibrate, hence no sound can be passed through a vacuum.


What would happen if a pendulum is set to swing in vacuum?

it will not stop forever


Could you hear an acoustic guitar in space?

No "space" is mostly a vacuum. No sound is transmitted in a vacuum. You would not hear a starship exploding either!


Why can sound energy not travel travel through a vacuum?

Sound waves are a vibration of molecules in the medium through which it passes. A vacuum has no medium, it is void of matter. Thus, no molecules to vibrate, no sound waves.


Why steering wheel vibrate in idle?

It is the engine that is vibrating and it is just being felt in the steering wheel. Can be a vacuum leak, or miss in the engine.


Sound waves can travel in a vacumn?

They can't, as sound is a series of particles that hit each other and cause a vibration. There are no particles in a vacuum to vibrate