SOUND ENERGY

SCIENCE 6- Q3- LESSON 3

Hey there! Can you imagine the sound of a ringing bell, a
chirping bird and the strumming of guitar strings?
Do you know HOW they produce sounds

• Sound is a form of energy produced by vibrating

materials.
• Vibration is a rapid back-and-forth motion. It can
be produced by stomping, plucking, striking,
blowing, hitting, and the like.
• When an object vibrates, the sound travels as waves in all
directions.
• When sound waves or vibrations reach to our ear, they are
carried by the auditory nerve to the brain, which interprets
the impulses into sound.
• A guitar produces sound by making its strings vibrate back
and forth.
• The hitting of the glass with metal caused the solid to vibrate.
The vibrations produce the sound.
• When vibrations stop, the sound stops.
• Sound travels through a medium – solid,
liquid or gas.
• Sound waves can travel best through solids
rather than through liquids and gases.
• Sound cannot be created in a vacuum or
space because nothing can transmit the
sound.