Sound Energy What is sound Sound is A

Sound Energy

What is sound? ● Sound is – A form of energy made by vibrations. – When an object vibrates it causes the air particles around it to move. – These particles bump into particles close to them and this continues until they run out of energy.

Try this: ● Put your finger on your neck and say “aah” as to yourself with a room voice. ● Now say it as soft as you can. ● You can not only hear the sound, but you can feel the vibration inside your throat.

How does sound travel? ● Sound travels through all forms of matter— gases, liquids and solid. ● These are called the medium. ● Sound cannot travel through a vacuum.

Pitch ● Pitch is how high or how low a sound is. high pitch = more frequency low pitch = less frequency

How does sound travel? ● ● Sound passes through the medium as longitudinal waves. When the vibrations are fast you hear a high pitch. When they’re slow, you hear a low pitch. High Pitch Low Pitch

Sound a longitudinal waves compress and rarefract compress: waves squeeze tightly together (allowing wave to travel) rarefract: waves seperate apart (released from the squeeze )

How else can we change sound? ● ● We can make it louder or softer by changing the amplitude of the height of the wave. The higher the amplitude, the louder the sound. The lower the amplitude the softer the sound. Louder Softer

Diffraction ● Bending of waves around a barrier or through an opening ● � Amount of diffraction depends on the wave length EX ● Hearing music playing but not knowing where it’s coming from

PHET SOUND https: //phet. colorado. edu/en/simulation/sound

DOPPLER EFFECT Apparent change in frequency of a sound wave caused by the motion of the wave and the observer. get closer to the source of a wave = more waves you observe farther away = less waves so you observe it less