Fun facts about Sound Waves!
There are 2 different ways to understand sound waves. Sound waves are categorized in 2 different ways. Mechanical sound waves, and longitudinal sound waves. When referring to Mechanical sound waves, sound waves are compared to slinky waves, for many reasons. Firstly, there is a medium that carries sound from one location to another. This medium is usually air. The medium is basically interconnected and interacting particles. Second, There is always an original source of the wave that is capable of disturbing the first particle of the medium. Usually this disturbance is caused by the the vibration from the vocal cords of a person, or the vibrating string and soundboard of a guitar or a violin. Thirdly, the sound wave wave is transported from one location to another due to particle-to-particle interaction. Seeing that a sound wave is a disturbance that is brought through a medium via the mechanism of particle-to-particle interaction a sound wave is characterized as a mechanical wave. A longitudinal wave is a sound wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to the direction that the wave moves. In this case the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction that the pulse moves. There are 2 different ways to understand sound waves. Sound waves are categorized in 2 different ways. Mechanical sound waves, and longitudinal sound waves. When referring to Mechanical sound waves, sound waves are compared to slinky waves, for many reasons. Firstly, there is a medium that carries sound from one location to another. This medium is usually air. The medium is basically interconnected and interacting particles. Second, There is always an original source of the wave that is capable of disturbing the first particle of the medium. Usually this disturbance is caused by the the vibration from the vocal cords of a person, or the vibrating string and soundboard of a guitar or a violin. Thirdly, the sound wave wave is transported from one location to another due to particle-to-particle interaction. Seeing that a sound wave is a disturbance that is brought through a medium via the mechanism of particle-to-particle interaction a sound wave is characterized as a mechanical wave. A longitudinal wave is a sound wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to the direction that the wave moves. In this case the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction that the pulse moves.
