In the figure, S is a small loudspeaker driven by an audio oscillator and amplifier, adjustable in frequency from 700 to 2500 Hz only. Tube D is a piece of cylindrical sheet-metal pipe 53.8 cm long and open at both ends. (a) If the speed of sound in air is 344 m/s at the existing temperature, at how many frequencies will a resonance occur in the pipe when the frequency emitted by the speaker is varied from 700 Hz to 2500 Hz? (b) What is the lowest resonant frequency in the given interval?
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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