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Sound Reflecting Materials

Sound reflectors are materials used to reflect and concentrate sound waves to a specific location. This helps amplify sounds without electronic amplification. However, concentrating sounds in small spaces can result in high intensity sounds that are harmful. Common reflective materials include gypsum boards, vinyl, and fabric finishes. Solid, non-porous surfaces like marble, metal, glass, plaster, gypsum boards, granite, ceramic, brick, and plastic are good sound reflecting materials as they do not absorb sound waves and reflect most of the sound back. Porous materials often absorb sound.

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Sound Reflecting Materials

Sound reflectors are materials used to reflect and concentrate sound waves to a specific location. This helps amplify sounds without electronic amplification. However, concentrating sounds in small spaces can result in high intensity sounds that are harmful. Common reflective materials include gypsum boards, vinyl, and fabric finishes. Solid, non-porous surfaces like marble, metal, glass, plaster, gypsum boards, granite, ceramic, brick, and plastic are good sound reflecting materials as they do not absorb sound waves and reflect most of the sound back. Porous materials often absorb sound.

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Sound reflecting materials

Sound reflectors are acoustical materials


used to reflect and concentrate waves of
sounds to a particular point.

This property helps in amplifying sounds


without the use of artificial amplifiers.

This is generally avoided in smaller spaces


as concentration of sounds results in high
intensity sounds which are harmful.

Gypsum boards, vinyl or fabric-finishes


are commonly used reflective materials.
Sound Reflecting Materials-
Solid Surfaces

They are best sound reflecting materials as they


don’t allow sound waves that are travelling in
the air to be absorbed by their surface and
reflect back all or a major part of those sound
waves.

These are non-porous materials as porous materials


often allows most of the sound to pass through
them or get absorbed.

Porous materials often absorbed sound waves and


it gets trapped in it’s spaces , hence no or just a
small part of it reaches us , but this doesn’t
happen in case of sound reflective materials , as
they reflect the sound back
EXAMPLES OF SOUND REFLECTNG
MATERIALS
1)MARBLES
Marbles being a hard surface
reflects much of the sound as the
absence of soft surface doesn’t
absorb any sound. Marbles are
used in spaces like office and not
other big spaces where there is no
problem of echo.
2) METAL

Metal being a good solid surface reflect sound


waves .Metals are a great generator of sound
as well , hence used in door bell and many
other sound making instruments
3) GLASS
Glass along with being a good reflector of
light , is equally good reflector of sound too.
Glass with solid surface reflect sound the
best rest rough glass are medium in respect
of reflecting back sound . Glass structures
are found in Opera houses etc ,where
absorbing of sound is not needed

4) PLASTER SURFACE
Plaster surfaces reflect sound
too as they don’t have a porous
or surface which have lots of
small spaces to absorb sound.
They reflect back almost all of
the sound without absorbing
much.
SOME OTHER GOOD SOUND REFLECTING MATERIALS-

GYPSUM BOARD

Gypsum boards have a plain surface


, so they make their place in the
list of good reflectors of sound

GRANITE

Granite is unable to
absorb sound since there
is no space in it’s surface
to trap or absorb sound
CERAMIC WALL BRICK WALLS PLASTIC SURFACES

Ceramic walls too Brick walls which Plastic surfaces too


make their name in generally don’t reflect sound
the list of materials have too much instead of
that reflect sound porous surface too absorbing it and
being having a plain are counted as thus are included
surface that reflects good reflectors of in list of good
back most of the sound reflectors of sound
sound

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