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Both are ways to transport energy from point a, to point b.

Both sound and light waves have a speed, wavelength and frequency.

Both can be diffracted, reflected and refracted, as those are properties of waves.

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Can sound be refracted?

yes, sound is a wave. waves can be refracted.


What is the Doppler efect?

A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.


What is the lowest point on a Sound or light wave?

The lowest point on a sound wave is the trough, which represents the lowest amplitude or pressure point in the wave. In a light wave, the lowest point is the trough as well, representing the lowest intensity or energy level of the wave.


What is the relationship between vibration and the frequency of a sound wave?

The relationship between vibration and the frequency of a sound wave is that the frequency of a sound wave is directly related to the rate of vibration of the sound source. In other words, the higher the frequency of a sound wave, the faster the source of the sound is vibrating.


How is light and sound alike?

Sound and light are alike when light is considered a wave. Light may also be considered a stream of particles, but in the times that it is considered a wave it obeys the same mathematical laws that sound does.

Related Questions

What is the difference between light band sound?

Easy. Light is a wave you can see, sound is a wave you can hear. B.T.W. light travels 186000 miles per second, and sound at 678.2.


What wave is similar to an ocean's wave?

A sound wave


Can sound be refracted?

yes, sound is a wave. waves can be refracted.


What do we see that the amplitude of a wave produces?

The amplitude of a wave produces the intensity of the wave. With a light wave, it is the intensity of the light, with a sound wave, it is how loud the sound is


What is the Doppler efect?

A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.A change of frequence in a wave (usually in a sound, or electromagnetic wave), due to the relative movement between the source of the sound and an observer.


Are light radio and sound transverse waves?

Light is an electromagnetic wave; and those are transverse. Sound is usually a longitudinal wave.


Are sound waves and light waves transverse?

Light is an electromagnetic wave; and those are transverse. Sound is usually a longitudinal wave.


Can you make a sound wave at a high enough frequency to convert it into light?

First of all, a sound wave is not a light wave. The frequency is not the only difference - it is quite a different type of wave. A wound wave might somehow INDUCE the creation of light waves (I don't know, it is just a possibility), but the sound wave ITSELF will not become a light wave. Second, the frequencies of light are extremely high; I am not sure whether sound can made at such frequencies.


What is the lowest point on a Sound or light wave?

The lowest point on a sound wave is the trough, which represents the lowest amplitude or pressure point in the wave. In a light wave, the lowest point is the trough as well, representing the lowest intensity or energy level of the wave.


Which of the following is not a transverse wave sound or radio wave or light or all of the above or none of the above?

Sound.


Can the wavelength and frequency of a color on the visible emr spectrum be duplicated to make a sound on a band of sound opposed to a band of emr?

No, you can not turn a light wave into a sound wave. While some people have a gift of seeing colors with sound (similar to perfect pitch), there is no way right now to hear light or colors in a laboratory setting.


What afre not transveres wave radio waves infrared wave sound wave visible light?

Sound isn't. The others are.