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Which use of sound waves depends on the fact that sound waves are reflected?
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Does sound waves cause objects to vibrate?
Sound waves are detected by the fact that the waves can cause objects to vibrate. The vibrations from the sound waves must be converted into a signal and then amplified and processed. Your ear and a microphone are common detectors of sound.
Does the pitch of sound depend on the frequency of the sound waves that produce it?
yes, the pitch of sound does, in fact, depend on the frequency of the sound wave.
Do infrared rays follow the law of reflection?
Yes. All electromagnetic waves do. In fact, all sound waves do too.
Why does speed of sound depend on the temperature of a medium through which sound waves travel?
Speed of sound increases with the increase in temperature of the medium .In fact the speed of sound is directly proportional to the square root of absolute temp. of the medium.
What kind of sound waves produce a high pitch?
The kind of sound waves that cause the highest sounding pitch would the the really thin and fast moving ones. There is, however a difference between big waves that are thin and fast, making a high pitched sound louder. This fact also applies with low, and thick slow moving waves as well. I'm 13 and hope this helped.
Does sound waves cause objects to vibrate?
Sound waves are detected by the fact that the waves can cause objects to vibrate. The vibrations from the sound waves must be converted into a signal and then amplified and processed. Your ear and a microphone are common detectors of sound.
Is there a paint or force field that can nulify sound waves?
true fact
Does the pitch of sound depend on the frequency of the sound waves that produce it?
yes, the pitch of sound does, in fact, depend on the frequency of the sound wave.
Do infrared rays follow the law of reflection?
Yes. All electromagnetic waves do. In fact, all sound waves do too.
Why are sound waves longitude?
They need not be longitudinal; but in the case of the sound we usually hear (in air) this is due to the fact that air is a gas.
Is it possible for sound to be reflected?
Yes. Sound is reflected all the time, and off a wide variety of surfaces. You've heard an echo. That's where a lot of sound is reflected and returned to you in a dramatic demonstration of the reflection of sound. The reflecting surface is generally a bit of a distance away to allow you to detect the delay before the sound retuns. But sound is reflected all the time off all kinds of things around us every day. We just don't notice all the reflected sound very much because we're not "attuned" to it. Normal conversation in, say, a department store causes some sound to be reflected. In fact, some sound will always be reflected because it cannot all be absorbed by the surfaces onto which it impinges. It could come back at us off the floor or the walls, and, in fact, it does. It's the same everywhere. Think about that. We just don't notice it very much because we've sort of "screened it out" from consciousness. In addition, sound moves pretty quickly and covers short distances almost in an instant. This applies to situations where we are in a room or a building. The sound that is reflected will give a net "quality" to what we are hearing. It is difficult to pick up on reflected sound because a lot of the sound we're used to hearing is not that loud, and the sound that is reflected to us off walls and the ground returns so quickly, we have trouble consciously separating it from the initial sound waves. Our ears are sensitive to tiny differences in the arrival times of sounds, and that's how we sense the direction a sound came from. But sensing reflected sounds around us is generally not something we do every day unless there is something dramatic going on. Conduct some experiments around hard surfaces with some space between them. A school gym might be a place to start to notice what is being discussed here.
Is it true that all radio waves are faster than all sound waves?
Yes that's true. Roughly 880,000 times as fast, in fact.
What contains sound energy?
As you may know, the sound energy is basically a wave or many waves traveling through the air( or anything that is not a void ) and those waves carry energy not matter. the sound waves or sound energy is a part of kinetic energy because the energy is not waiting to be unleashed, in fact it's moving within the air or any other material
What kinds of matter can sound travel through?
Sound waves (depending on length and initial decible level) can pass through any matter. In fact, it has been through the use of sound waves that we determined the core of our planet is mostly super hot-liquid iron!
How does diffraction affect sound waves?
Important parts of our experience with sound involve diffraction. The fact that you can hear sounds around corners and around barriers involves both diffraction and reflection of sound.
Why does speed of sound depend on the temperature of a medium through which sound waves travel?
Speed of sound increases with the increase in temperature of the medium .In fact the speed of sound is directly proportional to the square root of absolute temp. of the medium.
What kind of sound waves produce a high pitch?
The kind of sound waves that cause the highest sounding pitch would the the really thin and fast moving ones. There is, however a difference between big waves that are thin and fast, making a high pitched sound louder. This fact also applies with low, and thick slow moving waves as well. I'm 13 and hope this helped.
