Recent research has shown that the use of earbud-style headphones packaged with MP3 players can cause permanent hearing loss. (a) The intensity of the sound from the speakers of a certain MP3 player (without earbuds) is measured at 3.8 x 10-5 w/m2. Find the decibel level. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) dB (b) If earbuds are used with the MP3 player in part (a), the decibel level is 90 dB. Find the intensity. (Round your answer to three decimal places.) |W/m2 (c) Find the ratio of the intensity of the sound from the MP3 player with earbuds to that of the sound without earbuds. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
Properties of sound
A sound wave is a mechanical wave (or mechanical vibration) that transit through media such as gas (air), liquid (water), and solid (wood).
Quality Of Sound
A sound or a sound wave is defined as the energy produced due to the vibrations of particles in a medium. When any medium produces a disturbance or vibrations, it causes a movement in the air particles which produces sound waves. Molecules in the air vibrate about a certain average position and create compressions and rarefactions. This is called pitch which is defined as the frequency of sound. The frequency is defined as the number of oscillations in pressure per second.
Categories of Sound Wave
People perceive sound in different ways, like a medico student takes sound as vibration produced by objects reaching the human eardrum. A physicist perceives sound as vibration produced by an object, which produces disturbances in nearby air molecules that travel further. Both of them describe it as vibration generated by an object, the difference is one talks about how it is received and other deals with how it travels and propagates across various mediums.
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