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enderle ch. 26 voc.
Enderle ch. 26 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Term that refers to how high or low sounds frequencies can be | Pitch |
term applied to sound pitch too low to be heard by the human ear, that is, below 20Hz | Infrasonic |
Term applied to sound frequencies above 20,000Hz the normal upper limit of human hearing | Ultrasonic |
in sound, a pulse of compressed air, opposite of rarefaction | Compression |
a disturbance in air in which the pressure is lowered, opposite of compression | Rarefaction |
a frequency at which an elastic object,once energized, will vibrate. minimum energy is required to continue vibration at that frequency | Natural Frequency |
the vibration of an object thats meant to vibrate by another object that is nearby | Forced Vibration |
a phenomenon that occurs when the frequency of forced vibrations on an object, matches the object's natural frequency and a dramatic increase in amplitude results | Resonance |
a periodic vibration in the loudest of sound caused by interference when two tones of slightly different frequencies, are sounded together | Beats |