A person stands at rest in front of a large smooth wall. Between him and the wall he golds a tuning fork with a frequency of 400Hz. The person moves the fork toward the wall at a speed of 1 m/s. How many beats per second will the person hear between sound waves reaching him directly from the fork, and those reaching him from the sound reflecting off the wall. Thank you for the help.
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.
A person stands at rest in front of a large smooth wall. Between him and the wall he golds a tuning fork with a frequency of 400Hz. The person moves the fork toward the wall at a speed of 1 m/s.
How many beats per second will the person hear between sound waves reaching him directly from the fork, and those reaching him from the sound reflecting off the wall.
Thank you for the help.
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