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Sound waves are started by?

Sound waves are started by a vibrating object, which causes the air particles around it to vibrate. These vibrations are then carried through the air in the form of waves, which our ears detect as sound.


How do you Compare the loudness of sound waves that constructively interfere with the loudness of sound waves that destructively interfere?

The loudness of sound waves that constructively interfere adds up, resulting in a louder sound. On the other hand, sound waves that destructively interfere cancel each other out, leading to a softer or quieter sound.


What is the first step in recording sound waves?

The first step is amplification of the sound that is picked up by a microphone. This usually consists of a basic 'pre-amp' section which brings the audio signal up to workable levels, and a secondary amplification which makes the signal strong enough to be processed by the recoding circuit.


How do sound waves differ from other types of waves, considering that sound waves are transverse waves?

Sound waves are different from other types of waves because they are mechanical waves that require a medium, such as air or water, to travel through. Unlike transverse waves, which move up and down perpendicular to the direction of the wave, sound waves are longitudinal waves that move back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave.


What makes pitch louder?

A higher amplitude or greater energy in sound waves makes pitch louder. The intensity or volume of the sound wave determines its loudness.

Related Questions

What allows sound waves to convert into mechanical waves that stimulate hairs in organ of corti?

It is the [constantly varying] Physical Energy that makes up and composes sound waves.


What makes a sound and how do you hear it?

sound waves, your eardrum picks up these vibrations and transforms them into messages which your brain recieves


What are you increasing when you turn up the volume on a radio?

When you turn up the volume on a radio, you are increasing the amplitude of the sound waves, which makes the sound louder.


The thing that makes a sound is called the what of the sound?

Sounds waves create sound.


What type of wave makes up sound waves?

longitudinal wave formed due to compressions and rarefractions of media through which sound is propogating


How does tension affect a sound wave?

Tensionin a sound waves makes the sound harsher sound or softer sound


What are sound waves made up?

pressure waves


What kind of wave are sound waves?

Sound waves are longitudinal waves; they travel from side to side, not up and down like transverse waves.


Loudness of a sound depends on?

The amplitude of the sound waves. (the distance it makes the particles move)


What makes it possible for your ear to hear?

your ears pick up vibrations called sound waves in the air and we inperpret these as 'sounds'


Which kind of waves are sound waves?

compressional waves they swerve up and down


What kind of waves make up sounds waves?

Sound waves are made up of longitudinal waves. This means that the particles of the medium in which the sound is moving vibrate parallel to the direction of the wave.