Cambridge IGCSE Combined and Co-ordinated Sciences Revision checklists

Chapter P12  Sound

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Sounds are vibrations that travel through a material,
produced by a vibrating source.

An echo is produced when a sound is reflected off a

hard surface.

Sound travels through solids, liquids and gases at

speeds of hundreds or thousands of metres per
second.
Make sure you can state typical values of the speed
of sound in air (330 m/s), and liquids and solids
(1000–5000 m/s).
The frequency of a sound is the number of vibrations
per second, measured in hertz (Hz).

The greater the frequency of a sound, the higher

the pitch.

The greater the amplitude of a sound, the louder it is.

The audible range of sounds is from about 20 Hz to

about 20 kHz.

Sounds cannot travel through a vacuum.

The vibrations of a sound travel through a material

in the form of compressions and rarefactions of the
particles that make up the material.

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