Activity 10.1
A box, a rubber band, a finger.
↳ The sound lasts exactly as long as the shaking.
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Sound Waves: Characteristics and Applications · Class 9 Science
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Sound Is Produced by Vibration
One conclusion, from one observation.
Stop the vibration and the sound stops with it.
↳ No shaking, no sound.
Vibration
Not just any movement.
The periodic to and fro motion — the oscillation — of an object.
↳ Back and forth about a position, over and over.
Sound Goes Every Way
Turn the fork round and you still hear it.
It propagates in multiple directions from a source.
↳ We draw it in one direction only, for simplicity.
Activity 10.5: The Slinky
A spring toy stands in for the air.
↳ A disturbance runs along towards your friend.
What Does Not Travel
Watch the mark, not the spring.
It merely shifts to and fro about where it already was, along the line of travel.
↳ The disturbance travels, the particles stay.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
How Sound Is Produced and How It Travels
Pluck a stretched rubber band and the sound lasts exactly as long as the shaking does. Put an ear to a desk, or two spoons under water, and the sound still arrives. Pump the air out of a jar and it stops arriving altoget…
- A rubber band stretched across the open side of a cardboard box gives out sound when plucked, and the sound lasts only as long as the band i…
- Once the vibration stops, the sound stops, which is the whole of the evidence in that activity.
- So sound is produced by vibrations.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Sound Waves: Compressions, Rarefactions, Energy and Graphs
Push and pull a slinky and a disturbance runs along it while the marked turn stays put. Air behaves the same way: what travels is a train of squeezed and thinned regions, carrying energy but never the particles themselve…
- Holding a vibrating tuning fork near the ear in different orientations still gives a sound, which shows that sound propagates in multiple di…
- Which way sound spreads out will in general have something to do with the shape of what is making it; the diagrams here take a single direct…
- A long flexible spring toy of metal or plastic, called a slinky, stands in here for whatever material a sound has to cross.
~50 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Wavelength, Frequency, Time Period, Amplitude and Intensity
Five quantities describe any sound wave. Two are about how the pattern repeats in space and in time, two about how strongly it repeats, and one about how much of it arrives where you happen to be standing.
- How far it is from one peak of the curve to the next, or from one dip to the next, is what we call the wavelength.
- Wavelength is usually represented by the Greek letter $\lambda$, lambda, and its SI unit is the metre.
- The next thing to ask is how many times over the density at one chosen spot goes up and down while the wave is passing it.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
The Speed of Sound, and How Humans Perceive It
One formula ties speed to wavelength and frequency, and it explains why lightning is seen long before thunder is heard. Then the measurable side gives way to the subjective one: pitch, loudness and timbre are what the li…
- What the speed of sound measures is the rate at which the disturbance crosses a medium — which is to say, how quickly the squeezes and thinn…
- Put another way, it is how far a single feature of the wave, a peak say, gets in one unit of time.
- For a wave of given frequency, the distance between two consecutive crests is one wavelength $\lambda$, and the disturbance covers that dist…
~50 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
5
Reflection of Sound: Echo, Reverberation, Ultrasound and Echolocation
Sound bounces by the same laws as light, and one tenth of a second decides whether the return counts as a separate sound or blurs into the first. From that single number come echoes, concert hall design, bats hunting in…
- Put something solid or liquid in a sound wave's path and the wave comes back off it; that is reflection.
- The rules sound obeys are the ones light obeys: measure from the normal where the sound strikes and the angle going in equals the angle comi…
- The everyday case everyone has met is the echo.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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260 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
The rubber band activity shows that sound is produced by:
Beginner
A tension, since a tighter band gives a louder sound
B the box, which amplifies whatever is placed on it
C vibration, since the sound stops when the vibration does
D the finger, which supplies the sound directly
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vibration, since the sound stops when the vibration does
Waiting for the band to still is the decisive step.
Vibration is defined as:
Beginner
A any movement whatever of an object
B the periodic to and fro motion of an object
C the steady motion of an object in one direction
D the resting position that an object returns to
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the periodic to and fro motion of an object
It is also called oscillation.
What vibrates to produce the sound of a bansuri?
Intermediate
A The wall of the pipe itself
B The lips of the player alone
C The air inside the hollow pipe
D Nothing; it produces sound without vibration
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The air inside the hollow pipe
It is an air column rather than a solid.
The object that produces sound is called its:
Beginner
A medium
B prong
C source
D receiver
Show answer & explanation
source
The medium is what carries it afterwards.
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