What is sound?Sound is a form of energy, a compression waveform created by a vibration of an object.This is a way to prove it: if you gently touch your neck with a few fingers and saysomething you will feel a movement, a vibration of your vocal cords. When your vocalchords vibrate, they make sound waves. How do you create and detect sound?Sound is created by vibrations and compression of sound waves in the air. For example:musical instruments, when hitting a drum head or plucking a string of a guitar there arevibrations moving back and forth, those vibrations create sound.One way we detect sound is through our ear drums. After the sound waves hit our ear drums; it is caught by nerves in the body so that you can actually sense the sound waves.Another way we detect sound is by vibrations of our body. If you stand near by a speaker or a subwoofer (a special bass speaker) you will feel a movement, this is a type of soundcalled bass. In music, bass fills out all the missing sounds.There are many devices as well that detect sounds, such as microphones, hearing aids,earphones, condensers, mixers, sound cards, guitar pickups and many other devices. Allthese devices transmit the sounds into an electrical signal. Microphones today work on alittle membrane they insert into the microphone, the membrane picks up the vibrationsand compresses them into an electrical signal.3
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