An ambulance is driving away from you in an area with a speed limit of 50 km/h. You measure the frequency of one of its siren tones to be 737 Hz, when you know the actual frequency of the tone to be 770 Hz. The temperature outside is 13°C. Use the formula below to approximate the speed of sound in that temperature, then determine if the ambulance was speeding. Show all your work, including your rearranging of the Doppler equation. v=331 +0.61T where v is the speed of sound and T is the temperature in °C.
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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