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What determines if a sound is loud or soft?
The determining factor as to the softness or loudness of a sound is the amplitude of the sound wave. We know that sound is mechanical energy, and a source of sound will put mechanical energy into the medium through which it is going to travel. Let's look at the wave. The mechanical wave has a compression phase and a rarefaction phase. In compression, the source compresses the medium to impart energy. In the rarefaction phase, the source will act to decompress the medium. The sound will propagate outward in a series of compression and decompression phases. The difference between a loud and a softer sound is the degree to which a medium is compressed and rarefied during the process by which the sound energy is put into the medium. Fortunately there is a question (and an answer) that goes into this in a bit of detail. It is linked in the Related questions section.
In the sofar layer sound travels?
Yes, sound can travel for great distances in this layer because refraction tends to keep sounds waves in the layer.
What does John Dillinger's voice sound like?
Medium deep not to deep but it was somewhat deep
Where do sound waves cannot travel?
it can't travel in a vacuum, it needs medium to travel
Joseph has hypothesized that sound travels in waves if he were following the scientific method what should he do next?
A. test a hypothesis
Why does sound travel faster closer to the ground than in the air?
The stiffer meduim- travels quicker The denser the medium-travels slower
Does sound increase or decrease with altitude?
With no air, you get no sound, so guessing it decreases, also sound travels slower in a less dense medium.
Can sound travel through ground?
hi, sound does travel through ground. the speed at which sounds travels depends on the medium. the denser the medium, the slower it travels and stiffer the medium, the faster it travels.
Velocity of sound depends on?
The medium through which it is propagating. For exampl if the sound waves are travelling in air they will move slower than those travelling through a wall speed of sound in solids > speed of sound in liquids > speed of sound in gases
What is the effect of medium on sound travel?
The thicker and denser the medium, the slower sound will travel through it. The density of the medium matters because the denser the substance is, the more material the sound has to vibrate per inch it travels through the substance. This forces it to slow down.
What is the fact of medium on the speed of sound?
Sound travels at different speeds depending on the medium. Sound will travel the fastest through solids.
The speed of sound varies when?
sound travels faster or slower depending on the medium it is moving through and the temperature of the medium :]
Sound travels faster in a?
"dense medium"
Which medium sound travels faster?
solid
What do you call the path that sound travels in?
medium?
What travels through a medium as a disturbence?
Sound.
Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium?
a medium as longitude wave
