You are driving down the street with your windows open enjoying the nice day. On this nice 20°C day, the velocity of sound in air is 343 m/s . You see a person sitting on a park bench and hear him whistling just after you drive by. If the person whistles at a frequency of 1450 Hz and you drive away at a speed of 17 m/s, what frequency of sound do you observe?
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.
You are driving down the street with your windows open enjoying the nice day. On this nice 20°C day, the velocity of sound in air is 343 m/s . You see a person sitting on a park bench and hear him whistling just after you drive by. If the person whistles at a frequency of 1450 Hz and you drive away at a speed of 17 m/s, what frequency of sound do you observe?
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps
