A copper wire, whose cross-sectional area is 8.58 × 106 m², has a linear density of 6.18 × 103 kg/m and is strung between two walls. At the ambient temperature, a transverse wave travels with a speed of 60.8 m/s on this wire. The coefficient of linear expansion for copper is 17 x 10-6 (Cº)-1, and Young's modulus for copper is 1.1 x 10¹¹ N/m². What will be the speed of the wave when the temperature is lowered by 26.5 C°? Ignore any change in the linear density caused by the change in temperature. Number i Units
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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