Asked by Carl

Can someone describe how a sound wave travels through a medium to create sound. Can you also provide a descriptions of vibrations, longitudinal waves, compressions, rarefactions, and direction of movement in your response. That way I could understand it better. Thanks.
Answered by bobpursley
Sound - The science of waves, how they travel, how we use them
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/sound.html

Feb 20, 2019 - An easy-to-understand introduction to the science of sound: what is sound, how ... If you bang a drum, you make the tight skin vibrate at very high speed (it's ... As the air moves, it carries energy out from the drum in all directions. .... You can reflect a sound wave off something the same way light will reflect off ...
Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium (solid, liquid, ... version of the Mathematica® Notebook " Sound Waves" by Mats Bengtsson. ... In a longitudinal wave the particle displacement is parallel to the direction of ... The animation also identifies the regions of compression and rarefaction.
There are no AI answers yet. The ability to request AI answers is coming soon!