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What happends to a motion of a particle as a wave passes through a medium?
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∙ 14y ago
The particle will move briefly, then get back to its starting point. The wave moves ahead, the individual particles don't.
The particle will move briefly, then get back to its starting point. The wave moves ahead, the individual particles don't.
The particle will move briefly, then get back to its starting point. The wave moves ahead, the individual particles don't.
The particle will move briefly, then get back to its starting point. The wave moves ahead, the individual particles don't.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 8y agoSound is a longitudinal wave. If you take physics, you will now that this is a type of wave in which 'the particles forming the wave oscillate in a direction that is parallel to the direction of transmission of the wave'. What that means is that, unlike for a piece of string you've attached one end of to a wall, and which you are shaking the loose end of, the points on the wave do not move perpendicular to the direction of motion. To the contrary, they move forward and backwards in the same direction the wave moves in, that is to say like a slinky you're pushing back and forth so that it extends and retracts, extends and retracts, extends and retracs cyclically. So when you imagine the effect of sound on the particles of a medium, you use this same picture of a slinky: the particles oscillate back and forth, in the direction of sound transmission, in simple harmonic motion (which pretty much only means the particles are moving regularly, cyclically and in a stable fashion).
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∙ 14y agoThe particle will move briefly, then get back to its starting point. The wave moves ahead, the individual particles don't.
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∙ 11y agogoes on vibrating to the other person
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What is the definition of particle motion?
The definition of particle motion is how much you're able to sleep on a daily basis.
In a transverse wave that travels through a medium the molecules of the medium vibrate in which direction?
The molecules vibrate perpendicular to the direction of propagation or motion.
What is the measure of energy of motion of particle of matter?
motion
A single bump or disturbance that travels through a medium?
Sound causes vibrations in waves that pass through a medium.
What is a measure of the energy of motion of particles in a substance?
Particle motion increases as energy (like heat) is added. The motion slows as energy leaves. Temperature is a measure of this change in particle motion.
What explains the motion of micro particles?
Brownian motion. This is random motion of micro particles resultimg from collisions between the particle in question and other particles in the surrounding medium.
Does a low pitch sound have a low frequency?
A sound wave, like any other wave, is introduced into a medium by a vibrating object. The vibrating object is the source of the disturbance that moves through the medium. The vibrating object that creates the disturbance could be the vocal cords of a person, the vibrating string and sound board of a guitar or violin, the vibrating tines of a tuning fork, or the vibrating diaphragm of a radio speaker. Regardless of what vibrating object is creating the sound wave, the particles of the medium through which the sound moves is vibrating in a back and forth motion at a given frequency. The frequency of a wave refers to how often the particles of the medium vibrate when a wave passes through the medium. The frequency of a wave is measured as the number of complete back-and-forth vibrations of a particle of the medium per unit of time. If a particle of air undergoes 1000 longitudinal vibrations in 2 seconds, then the frequency of the wave would be 500 vibrations per second. A commonly used unit for frequency is the Hertz (abbreviated Hz), where 1 Hertz = 1 vibration/second As a sound wave moves through a medium, each particle of the medium vibrates at the same frequency. This is sensible since each particle vibrates due to the motion of its nearest neighbor. The first particle of the medium begins vibrating, at say 500 Hz, and begins to set the second particle into vibrational motion at the same frequency of 500 Hz. The second particle begins vibrating at 500 Hz and thus sets the third particle of the medium into vibrational motion at 500 Hz. The process continues throughout the medium; each particle vibrates at the same frequency. And of course the frequency at which each particle vibrates is the same as the frequency of the original source of the sound wave. Subsequently, a guitar string vibrating at 500 Hz will set the air particles in the room vibrating at the same frequency of 500 Hz, which carries a sound signal to the ear of a listener, which is detected as a 500 Hz sound wave.
What is the particle motion?
Brownian motion
What is a wave physical?
The disturbance traveled from one end to the other end in a medium without the acutal moment of particle is called wave motion.
What is the definition of particle motion?
The definition of particle motion is how much you're able to sleep on a daily basis.
In a transverse wave that travels through a medium the molecules of the medium vibrate in which direction?
The molecules vibrate perpendicular to the direction of propagation or motion.
What does the brownian motion tell us about the particles in matter?
Random moving of the particles specially in the liquid or gaseous medium. This is caused due to the collisions of the atom and the molecules in the medium. Better understandability is provided in particle theory
What is the measure of energy of motion of particle of matter?
motion
Which organizes the phases of matter from the least particle motion to the greatest particle motion?
solid, liquid, gas, plasma
Why can a wave travel through a medium?
Wave is form of kinetic energy transfer through medium in propagation - oscillation manner. Water wave is the continue motion of water and sound wave is through air. The electron motion in A/C is the motion of free electron transfer through the next electron to the use point. Exception of wave that doesn't require medium is light wave, however, if it consider space as ether then the light wave also travel through the ether as medium.
What is a measure of the energy of motion of the particles in a substance?
Particle motion increases as energy (like heat) is added. The motion slows as energy leaves. Temperature is a measure of this change in particle motion.
Why is the motion of one particle in a gas independent of the motion of the other particles?
due to large air space between particle
