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    Sound waves reflect off hard surfaces like walls, which can result in echoes or reverberation. An echo occurs when a reflected sound wave is heard shortly after the original sound. Reverberation involves multiple reflections of a sound within a short period of time, especially in an empty room. A simple experiment can demonstrate reflection of sound waves by showing that a sound is heard at the same angle it is reflected. An echo is analyzed in the document, where a child shouts and hears an echo 1.4 seconds later, allowing the cliff's distance to be calculated using the speed of sound.

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    Reflection of Sound including echos

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    Sound waves reflect off hard surfaces like walls, which can result in echoes or reverberation. An echo occurs when a reflected sound wave is heard shortly after the original sound. Reverberation involves multiple reflections of a sound within a short period of time, especially in an empty room. A simple experiment can demonstrate reflection of sound waves by showing that a sound is heard at the same angle it is reflected. An echo is analyzed in the document, where a child shouts and hears an echo 1.4 seconds later, allowing the cliff's distance to be calculated using the speed of sound.

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    Reflection of Sound

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    Kalpana Saravana Kumar
    Sound waves reflect off hard surfaces like walls, which can result in echoes or reverberation. An echo occurs when a reflected sound wave is heard shortly after the original sound. Reverberation involves multiple reflections of a sound within a short period of time, especially in an empty room. A simple experiment can demonstrate reflection of sound waves by showing that a sound is heard at the same angle it is reflected. An echo is analyzed in the document, where a child shouts and hears an echo 1.4 seconds later, allowing the cliff's distance to be calculated using the speed of sound.

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    WALT : HOW SOUND WAVES ARE REFLECTED?

    WILF:

    ALL must
    Able to explain how the
    sound reflects.

    Most should
    Be able to analyze the
    reflection of sound.

    Some could
    Be able to interpret the
    reflection of sound.

    STARTER:
    Why sound cannot travel
    through vacuum?
    A The particles in vacuum are
    very rigid
    B vacuum is a completely
    empty space, so oscillations can
    never happen
    C Vacuum has very less
    particles

    Reflection of sound
    waves
    Sound waves are reflected by hard
    surfaces like wall. Reflection of sound
    waves can result in an echo or
    reverberation.
    An echo is a reflected sound that we can
    hear for a short time after the original
    sound.
    A reverberation occurs due to multiple
    reflections from walls, ceilings etc.,
    (especially in an empty room) within a very
    short time of the original sound

    Reflection of sound
    waves
    A simple experiment to demonstrate the
    reflection of sound
    Sound
    is clearly heard when it is reflected
    at the same angle.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H1abPcHFwk

    Reflection of sound
    An echo is a reflected sound wave.
    Question:
    A misguided child shouts Chelsea!
    at a nearby cliff and hears an echo
    1.4 s later. How far away is the
    cliff?
    Take the speed of sound = 340
    m/s.

    distance, D

    The sound travels to and from the cliff, a total


    distance of 2D
    speed = distance / time
    becomes: distance = speed x time
    = 340 m/s x 1.4 s
    = 476 m
    = 2D !
    Therefore distance to the cliff = 238 m.

    Plenary

    Choose appropriate words to fill in the gaps below:


    Sound is a ___________
    longitudinal wave that in air consists of a series of
    compressions and _____________.
    rarefactions
    Sound travels fastest through _______
    but does not travel at
    solids
    all through a __________.
    vacuum
    A ____________
    sound wave is called an echo. Sound also
    reflected
    undergoes ___________.
    refraction
    On average, humans can hear sound frequencies from
    __________
    to ____________.
    20 Hz
    20 000Hz
    WORD SELECTION:
    rarefactions refraction vacuum 20 Hz
    longitudinal reflected 20 000 Hz

    solids

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