Sound waves
Introduction
Examples
Lessons
- Sound produced by clapping hands is echoed from a distant building 0.4s later, how far is the building? (speed of sound 343m/s at 20°C)
- What happens to the wavelength and frequency of sound waves if temperature increases?
- Find the wavelength of a sound wave moving in air with frequency of 415 Hz.
- The sound detected by human ear is between 20Hz and 20kHz. Find the corresponding wavelengths that can be detected by human.
- What physical characteristics of sound is used to decrease the pitch? To increase the loudness?
- Sketch a graph of displacement vs. time to represent sound waves, for two cycles of 12-kHz and two cycles of 24-kHz.
- If you hear an ambulance siren dropping while passing you, can tell in which direction is moving?