A woman competing in a fishing tournament sits in a 6 meter long fishing boat that is 0.70 m high. The fish aren’t biting, and in her boredom the lady notices that the vertical distance between a crest and a trough of a water wave passing the boat is one-quarter the height of the boat. At any time there are 10 crests from the front of the boat to the back of the boat.Find the amplitude and the wavelength of the waves. For the situation in Question 7, what are the frequency and period of the waves if the woman notes that 4 crests pass her every 2 seconds?
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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