The air on a very warm summer day is 38C. You blow across the top of a tube with a length of 35.0cm that is open at both ends, producing its fundamental sound frequency. Your friend blows across the top of a different tube with a length of 17.4cm. What is the rate at which the amplitude of these combined sounds oscillates?
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.
The air on a very warm summer day is 38C. You blow across the top of a tube with a length of 35.0cm that is open at both ends, producing its fundamental sound frequency. Your friend blows across the top of a different tube with a length of 17.4cm. What is the rate at which the amplitude of these combined sounds oscillates?
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