Going down the road at 65 miles per hour on a 86.0 °F summer day, Bari heard a siren approaching. Bari knows that a police siren's frequency is 1280.0 Hz, but it didn't sound like that. Bari pulled over a lane, without slowing down, after seeing the flashing lights of the police car coming up from behind, and the police passed going 25 miles per hour faster than Bari was going. (1 mile = 1.60 km) a) what was the speed of sound on that warm summer day? b) How fast, in m/s, was the police car going? c) What frequency did Bari hear from the siren before the police car passed? d) What frequency did Bari hear from the siren after the police care had passed?
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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