COMDIS 240 Class Assignment #3: Describing Sound

Lydia Dawley
Names: ______________________________________________________________________________

Amplitude:
1. What types of sounds would you likely calculate RMS amplitude and why?
Complex waves, simulating cochlea’s calculation of amplitude -unable to look at
peak to peak/max/Inst amp with most sounds as too variable over time
2. Label the axes of the waveform below and calculate the RMS amplitude given the samples
indicated every 2 ms by the thin grey vertical lines. (Show your work).

Y= amplitude
X=time
5^2+(-3)^2+2^2+(-1)^2+(-2)^2= 43
Frequency 43/5=8.6
^1/2(8.6)=2.9
3. Conversions, fill in the table. Show your work.

Seconds (s) Miliseconds (ms) Hertz (Hz) Kilohertz (kHz)

1 1000 1 .0001
.1
100 245000 245
.05 500 78 .078
.25 250 8,000 8
2.5 2,500 250 2.5
10 10,000 4000 40
.46 460 1500 1.5

4. Calculating Frequency and Period (Show your work)

a. If T= 250ms what is the frequency in Hz?
1000/250=4
 b. If T= 10 ms then what is the frequency in Hz?
1000/10=10Hz
c. If T= 500 ms then what is the frequency in Hz?
1000/500=2Hz
d. If f=5 Hz then what is the period in ms?

1000/5=200ms
e. If f=25 Hz then what is the period in seconds and ms?
1/25=.04secs .04x1000=40ms
f. This wave has a period of 125 ms, what’s the frequency in Hz and kHz?

1000/125=8. 8hz/1000=.0008 kHz

g. This wave has a period of 50 ms – what’s the frequency Hz and kHz?
1000/50=20 Hx 20/1000=.02kHz”

h. This wave has a period of 3 s, what is the frequency in Hz?

1/3=.33Hz

5. Frequency, Period, and Cycle (show your work)

a. What is the duration of the following sounds in ms?
i. 5 Hz tone for 2 cycles?
1/5=2 2x2=.4 .4x1000=400
ii. 2500 Hz tone for 300 cycles?
1000/2500=.0004 .0004x300=.12 .12x1000=120

iii. 1 kHz tone for 500 cycles?

1x1000=1000 1/1000=.001 .001x500=.5
iv. 2000 Hz tone x 500 cycles
1/200=.0005 .0005x500=.25 .25x1000=250
v. 10,000 Hz tone x 20,000 cycles
1/1000=.0001 .0001x2000=2 2x1000=2000
vi. 200 kHz tone x 10,000 cycles
1x200=200 1/200=.005 .005x1000=50

Period:

6. What is incorrect about the following?

a. If T = 250 ms, then f = 40 Hz
1000/250=4
b. If T = 10 ms, then f = 10 Hz
1000/10=100
7. How many ms is the period of a 1 Hz tone? Draw two cycles of this sound on a waveform (make
sure to label your axes.
1000/1=1000ms

Y=
Displacement

X=time
Wavelength and formula manipulation:

8. What is the wavelength of a 1100 Hz sound traveling in water?

S=1360
f=1100
1360/1100=1.24|
9. Why
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would the wavelength be longer in water than in air?
How far the molecules travel further in water

10. What is the wavelength of a sound traveling at a speed of 2000 m/s with a frequency of 300 Hz?
S=2000
f=300
2000/300=6.67
Phase:

11. Fill in the table.

Cycles Degrees
1
2 720
4 1,440
1/2 180
1/2 180

12. If a cycle takes 1 second to complete then it will take:

a. .25
___ sec for ¼ cycle
.5|
b. ___sec for ½ cycle
c. .75
___sec for ¾ cycle
1 sec for 1 cycle
13. If cycle is 4 times as fast as 1 second then:

.0625
a. 90˚= ¼ cycle =__________

b. 180 ˚= ½ cycle=_________
.125
.1875
c. 270 ˚= ¾ cycle =_________
.25
d. 360 ˚ = 1 cycle =_________

14. How much out of phase are waves A and B in each panel?

90
a. __________________

90
b. __________________

c. 180
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