SOUND AND ITS

PROPERTIES
What is Sound?
• Sound is defined as vibrations
that travel through the air or
another medium as an audible
mechanical wave.
Vibrations
• Our ear vibrates in
every similar way to
the original source of
the vibration , this
allows us to hear may
different sounds .
Sound waves
• longitudinal pressure waves in
any material medium regardless
of whether they constitute
audible sound
• Sound wave has wavelength

wavelength is the distance from

one area of squeezed particle to the
next area of squeezed particles on
the distance from a point on a wave
to the same point on the next wave.
• Sound wave has frequency

Frequency it refers to the

number of times of a sound
source vibrates in one second.
• Sound wave has amplitude

Amplitude refers to the energy

carried by the sound wave.

Objects that vibrate with greater

amount of energy produce sound
with high amplitude
PROPERTIES OF SOUND

1. Picth
2. Intensity
1.PICTH
• Refers to the highness and lowness
of notes
2.INTENSITY
•objects that produces soft
sound have low intensity
while those that produce loud
sound have high intensity
• Sound travel in a straight path

Like light sound travel in a

straight path from its source
however it can travel around a
corner.
Reflected sound
• When a sound source ceases in a
space the sound waves will
continue to reflect off the hard wall,
floor and ceiling surfaces until it
loses enough energy and dies out.
Absorbed sounds
• absorption refers to the process by
which a material, structure, or
object takes in sound energy when
sound waves are encountered, as
opposed to reflecting the energy.
Diffracted sound
Diffraction is the process by the which
sound waves uses the edges of a barrier.