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    The document discusses sound waves and how they are created by vibrating sources and require a medium to propagate. It explains that the speed of sound differs in various materials, with sound traveling fastest in solids and not at all in outer space due to the vacuum. It also describes characteristics of sound waves like pitch, loudness, quality/timbre, and the human ear's ability to sense sounds within a frequency range. Finally, it poses some review questions about these concepts.

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    The document discusses sound waves and how they are created by vibrating sources and require a medium to propagate. It explains that the speed of sound differs in various materials, with sound traveling fastest in solids and not at all in outer space due to the vacuum. It also describes characteristics of sound waves like pitch, loudness, quality/timbre, and the human ear's ability to sense sounds within a frequency range. Finally, it poses some review questions about these concepts.

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    SOUND WAVES

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    The document discusses sound waves and how they are created by vibrating sources and require a medium to propagate. It explains that the speed of sound differs in various materials, with sound traveling fastest in solids and not at all in outer space due to the vacuum. It also describes characteristics of sound waves like pitch, loudness, quality/timbre, and the human ear's ability to sense sounds within a frequency range. Finally, it poses some review questions about these concepts.

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    Sound Waves

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    Kate Barney
    The document discusses sound waves and how they are created by vibrating sources and require a medium to propagate. It explains that the speed of sound differs in various materials, with sound traveling fastest in solids and not at all in outer space due to the vacuum. It also describes characteristics of sound waves like pitch, loudness, quality/timbre, and the human ear's ability to sense sounds within a frequency range. Finally, it poses some review questions about these concepts.

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    Activity

    YOU ARE DIFFERENT

    Objective: create a sound from different objects

    Questions to ponder
    1. How do sound produce?
    2. What are the mediums used to create sound?
    3. Why do sound differ from one medium another?
    SOUND WAVES

    AS CARRIERS OF ENERGY
    SOUND WAVES
    - are longitudinal waves created from a vibrating source.

    - Mechanical waves, it means that it requires a medium to


    propagate medium- is a substance or material that
    carries the wave.
    Speed of sounds is different in various materials

    " In which medium do you think will sound travel the fastest?
    Can you hear sound in the outer space?
    Sound does not travel at
    all in space.
    The vacuum of outer
    space has essentially zero
    air.
    Because sound is just
    vibrating air, space has no
    air to vibrate and
    therefore no sound.
    Characteristics of sound waves
    PITCH- refers to the highness or lowness of the
    sound.
    -the frequency of the wave dictates the pitch of the
    sound.
    LOUDNESS - refers to how soft or how intense the
    sound is.
    - can be determined by the amplitude of the sound
    waves.
    Which do you think has the higher sound?

    B
    Which is more pleasant to the ear?

    B
    Loudness is also considered psychological sensation that
    differs from diffirent people.
    QUALITY/ TIMBRE - used in ddifferentiating two
    different sounds that have the same pitch and
    loudness.
    The human ear can only sense sound within a frequency
    range.
    QUIZ!

    1. Sound waves travels fastest in ____.


    a. vacuum b. air c. liquids d. solids
    2. In which area will we not be able to hear any sound?
    a. theatre b. closed room c. outer space d. spaceship
    3. A higher frequency sound has _____.
    a. lower pitch b. higher pitch c. low energy d. a&c
    4. Which of the following is NOT capable of transmitting
    sound?
    a. air b. water c. steel d. vacuum
    5. In which of the following sound travel fastest?
    a. Ice b. steam c. water d. sound travel at the same speed in
    each of the above

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