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Sound Properties and Interactions. How Do We Produce Sounds? Vibrations are key!!!!! Vibrations: the complete back-and- forth motion of an object.

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1 Sound Properties and Interactions

2 How Do We Produce Sounds? Vibrations are key!!!!! Vibrations: the complete back-and- forth motion of an object

3 Example of a Speaker A.Vibrations begin at the source…the speaker B. Vibrations move in waves…away from the source C.V ibrations continue to move in waves away from the source…in compressions and rarefactions

4 Sound Waves are Longitudinal Remember COMPRESSIONS and RAREFACTIONS!!!! SOURCE Rarefactions Compressions

5 Need For A Medium Medium: a substance through which a wave can travel Solid, Liquid, Gas Sound cannot travel in a VACUUM !!!!

6 Speed of Sound The speed of sound depends on the medium The speed of sound is constant through a medium as long as the properties of the medium are constant

7 Changing The Speed Of Sound The biggest property of change is TEMPERATURE!!! Colder the medium = the slower the speed of sound

8 Whudyou’ Say Willis?

9 What!?!?!?

10 Yeah!!!!! When you listen to things at too loud a level…these cilia (hairs) continue to vibrate and lead to a ringing in your earsWhen you listen to things at too loud a level…these cilia (hairs) continue to vibrate and lead to a ringing in your ears

11 Pitch Pitch: how low or high you perceive a sound to be Depends on Frequency

12 Frequency and Hearing

13 Doppler Effect Doppler Effect: The apparent change in the frequency of a sound caused by the motion of either the listener or the source of the sound The frequency doesn’t actually change…its only sounds like it does

14 Loudness Loudness: how loud or soft a sound is perceived to be Larger amplitude = Louder Sound

15 Reflection of Sound Waves Reflection: the bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier Example: Echo

16 Echolocation Echolocation: the process of using reflected sound waves to find objects Uses: animals such as dolphins, bats, and birds use this to hunt food and detect objects in their way

17 Echolocation and Bats

18 Echolocation Technology Sonar: Sound Navigation And Ranging Sonar allows navigators on ships detect icebergs and can help oceanographers map the ocean floor

19 Resonance Resonance: occurs when an object vibrating at or near a natural frequency of a second object causes the second to vibrate


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