| Question |
Answer |
| frequency |
sound tells you how fast pressure oscillates |
| superpostion principle |
sound creates by superpstion of many frequncies |
| decibels |
loudness of a sound |
| speaker |
device spicificly to reproduce sounds accuratly |
| acoustics |
sound and technology of sound |
| microphone |
transforms sound waves into electrical signal |
| stereo |
recorded sound you hear |
| longitudinal waves |
air thats compressed in direction of travel |
| wavelength |
sound in air thats compairable to size of everyday objects |
| subsonic |
moving slower than sound |
| shock wave |
forms when wave fronts pile up |
| supersonic |
moveing faster than sound |
| reverbration |
multible scho |
| fourier's theorm |
any wave can be repersented as a sum of single frquency waves |
| frequency spectrum |
graph that shows amplitude of each component frequency in complex wave. |
| sonogram |
special graph that shows how lound sound is in diffrent frequencies. |
| cochlea |
tiny fluid filled organ |
| rhythm |
reqular time pattern in a sound |
| musical scale |
pattern of frequencies |