On a fun day at the shore, you throw your friend a wireless speaker that is playing a song that has a thick bass sound of 85 Hz Part (a) If you threw the speaker with a speed of 6.5 m/s on a 31.5 °C day, what frequency does your stationary friend hear? Part (b) As you stand there, your friend puts the speaker in their sand buggy and drives away at a speed of 14 m/s as the song keeps playing. What frequency do you hear? Part (c) Instead of a fun day at the shore, let's reenact this scenario in the middle of winter, with a temperature of (-14.8 °C). What would be the answer to part (b) with this new, colder temperature?
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.
On a fun day at the shore, you throw your friend a wireless speaker that is playing a song that has a thick bass sound of 85 Hz
Part (a) If you threw the speaker with a speed of 6.5 m/s on a 31.5 °C day, what frequency does your stationary friend hear?
Part (b) As you stand there, your friend puts the speaker in their sand buggy and drives away at a speed of 14 m/s as the song keeps playing. What frequency do you hear?
Part (c) Instead of a fun day at the shore, let's reenact this scenario in the middle of winter, with a temperature of (-14.8 °C). What would be the answer to part (b) with this new, colder temperature?
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