1,720-Hz tone is played on a stereo in an open field. A person stands at a point that is 4 m from one of the speakers and 4.4 m from the other. What must the minimum wavelength be for the person to hear the tone?
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.
A 1,720-Hz tone is played on a stereo in an open field. A person stands at a point that is 4 m from one of the speakers and 4.4 m from the other. What must the minimum wavelength be for the person to hear the tone?
(Hint: because of interference, two waves add constructively or destructively. If the sound is heard the interference must be constructive. For interference to be constructive, the difference in distance must be a multiple of the wavelength. That is, the difference in distances from the speakers must be 1 wavelength, two wavelengths, three wavelengths, etc.)
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