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Wine Glass Limitations

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The following essay will explore topics related sound frequency, glass, wavelengths, and the properties of sound allowing I am able to grasp a better understanding of sound and its effects on glass. Sound is much powerful than most expect. I do believe that sound has the potential to break wine glasses when a certain frequency is applied. The science fair project I will be conducting is based upon if sound can break glass, more specifically a wine glass. I will be using speakers to play different frequencies and all of the same kind of wine glass to conduct my experiment. My hypothesis-stated before any research was done-was: a wineglass will break if a frequency higher than ---- is applied to the glass. Since my project will be experimenting with sound and its frequencies, I wanted to become more familiar with sound. Starting with the basics, when using frequency, you measure in hertz (Hz). Also, sound waves are the transfer of energy without the transfer of matter. This means that waves transfer energy, but it does not give off any type of liquid, solid, or gas. Sound travels through matter, but is not matter, only energy. Frequency can be defined as the number of wavelengths to pass a point per second. When going about life we hear different sounds every day. Each sound has its own frequency depending on how low or how high the sound is. The human ear has the ability to hear sound frequencies from 20-20,000 Hz and animals such as dogs can hear frequencies of about 50,000 Hz. Sound frequencies below 20 Hz are known as infrasound and frequencies above 20,000 Hz are known as ultrasound. I will be testing frequencies from many different range, even ultrasound frequencies to determine what kind of frequencies a wine glass can sustain and what the effect of each frequency has on a wine glass. When a frequency is applied to a wineglass and other types of glass, the glass will vibrate until the glass can no longer sustain the vibration. My experiment will determine what frequencies just vibrate the glass without breaking it and what frequencies vibrate the glass to the point of breakage.
Another factor that plays into my experiment is the characteristics of sound waves. The loudness of the sound correlates to

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