Sound is something most people take for granted. Our environment is full of noises, which we have been exposed to from before birth. What is sound, how does it propagate, and how can it be quantified?

Students learn how sound waves are produced and transmitted. Students learn how sound waves are produced and transmitted and how frequency is related to pitch. The speeds of sound in different media ...

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We saw earlier that when sound waves come from correlated sources then their pressure and associated velocity components simply add. This meant that the pressure amplitude could vary between zero and ...