State whether the frequency of a wave will increase, decrease, or remain unchanged as perceived by an observer under each of the following conditions: a. The medium is moving and the source and observer are both stationary. b. The source is moving towards the observer, from the left, and the observer is moving to the right. The speed of the wave is greater than those of the source and the observer. c. The sourceis moving towards the observer from the right. The observer, riding in a super sonic vehicle, is moving downward. The speed of the wave is greater than that of the source but less than that of the observer.
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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