Timeline
November 1st: I decided to brainstormed possible topics about sound waves, what interests me and what I would like to learn about.
November 4th: I started to research the basics and a sound wave and its properties. I also to notes on what a sound wave is and how frequency affects a sound wave.
November 7th:
Possible Topics
What is a sound wave
The Nature Of a Sound Wave
Sound waves through different mediums
Instrumental sound waves
How microphones and headphones work
How humans interpret sound (range of hearing)
Convert Sound Waves Into Electromagnetic Energy
The Speed of Sound
The Doppler effect
Properties
How you measure sound waves
Real life examples on sound waves
Wild life sound waves
Reflection, Refraction, and
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Sound waves through different mediums
The velocity of a sound wave is affected by two properties of matter: the elastic properties and density. The relationship is described by the following equation.
Where: Cij is the elastic properties and p is the density.
Elastic Properties
The speed of sound is also different for different types of solids, liquids, and gases. One of the reasons for this is that the elastic properties are different for different materials. Elastic properties relate to the tendency of a material to maintain its shape and not deform when a force is applied to it. A material such as steel will experience a smaller deformation than rubber when a force is applied to the materials. Steel is a rigid material while rubber deforms easily and is a more flexible material.
The phase of matter has a large impact upon the elastic properties of a medium. In general, the bond strength between particles is strongest in solid materials and is weakest in the gaseous state. As a result, sound waves travel faster in solids than in liquids, and faster in liquids than in gasses. While the density of a medium also affects the speed of sound, the elastic properties have a greater influence on the wave speed.
Density
The density of a medium is the second factor that affects the speed of sound. Density describes the mass of a substance per volume. A substance that is more dense per volume has more mass per volume.
Sounds travels even
A sound wave is a disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that transmits energy from one place to another with no transfer of matter. In Activity 2 on page 8 we had to model sound waves using an instrument. In our class we used a flute as the example and when the person blew into it, sound waves were produced. As they blew and changed the volume and pitch the sound waves changed. A sound wave is created when something vibrates. When something vibrates, longitudinal waves are created which we can hear. A longitudinal wave is a wave that transfers energy through compressions and rarefactions in the material that the wave travels which are all parts of a sound wave. In Activity 2 it states in some parts of the wave, the air molecules
Provide one example of each sound device from any poem assigned in this course. Explain the effect the use of that device has on the author’s communication of the poem’s message. (24 points) Sound DeviceExampleEffectAlliterationPoem: “Summer”Quote:Juice dripping running and rippingI can analyze that juice is dripping from something the characterhas as he/she rips & run around.AssonancePoem: “Ziggy’s Coffeehouse”Quote:smooth stones crunch beneath my shoesThe effect is the crunching soung from the rocks or stones the character is walking on.ConsonancePoem: “Analysis of Baseball”Quote:Ball hit bat, or ithits mitt.The effect is the ball hitting the ball or hits mittOnomatopoeiaPoem: “Summer”Quote: Bugs buzzing The effect I have from this quote is that
Density is the amount of matter per unit of measurement (Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 26 Aug. 2016.). If water has a density of 1.0 g/mL and you place a substance with a density of 1.8 g/mL the substance will sink because it is denser than water. Density is often measured in g/cm^3 or g/mL because the formula for density is D=m/v.
These averages we determined from the trials can be compared to the accepted speed of sound (344.2 m/s in this specific temperature), and we determine the relative error percentages:
In longitudinal waves the object doesn’t exactly follow the waves fully instead the object moves in a back and forth motion while the waves continues to move forward through the object. While in transverse waves the object doesn’t follow the waves as well and just moves up and down in the same position.
The purpose of this experiment is to measure the speed of sound in air and to determine the effects of frequency on the speed of sound.
Over the past weeks I have been adding sounds to a moving image clip. Research of the science behind sound and of professional sound recordist would be key, anything from microphone techniques to personal safety would need to be taken into account on the recording side, whereas an understanding of the software and tools within it would be needed for the sequencing.
As the distance to an object is determined by measuring the time of flight and not by the intensity of the sound, ultrasonic sensors are excellent at suppressing background interference. Virtually all materials which reflect sound can be detected, regardless of their color. Even transparent materials or thin foils represent no problem for an ultrasonic
Sound waves are nothing more than an energy transfer through a medium be it through a liquid, solid, or a gas. Sound pressure or intensity is measured on logarithmic scale in decibels dB which increases on an order of magnitude. For instance a quiet conversation would be around 30 dB and whereas the human pain threshold would be just over 100 dB. While the pitch or frequency of the sound is measured in hertz or Hz, the higher the hertz the higher the pitch of the sound and vice versa (Hildebrand, 2004).
As the project develops I will explore more tribal water rituals as these rituals can be based around water and the spiritual power of water and sound (music), such as the tribal woman of Vanuatu. As I am personally not of these tribal decent, I will use what research I can on these performance ritual, to generate sound using modern methods, such as an electric guitar, effects pedals, computer based music modification and Video. I will explore the similarities and achieve a representation of water flow in the form of sound, music and video.
Detects different physical characteristics of pressure waves: • Pitch: perception of the frequency of sound waves (umber of wavelengths that pass a fixed point in a unit of time) • Loudness: the perception of the intensity of sound (the pressure exerted by sound
According to Gill (2012,p. 11) the equation for Acoustic impedance is Z=ρc, where (Z=Acoustic impedance, ρ =density of medium and c =velocity of beam). From this equation is understood that acoustic
Sound is a wave, and a wave can be remembered as a medium, carrying energy from one point to another. The sound wave has a resemblance of a slinky in its nature, for many reasons. The disturbance goes from one place to another, carried by the medium. Typically, the medium will carry energy through the air, although it could be any substance like water and steel. There is an original source of the wave; anything from someone’s vibrating vocal chords, or a tuning fork. Then, the sound is transported through the medium through particle-to-particle interaction. If the sound wave is moving through the
It is within this framework that I consider important to study the way in which sound is
This can be represented as : v2 = (elastic property / inertial property). Where the elastic property is usually the bulk modulus or Young's modulus of the medium, and the inertial property is the density of the medium.