Sound Waves (9.2)
See the vibrating string producing sound waves
Sound travels as longitudinal waves
Whale songs in water medium
Sound waves travel in all directions
Sonar in bats for finding food at night (receiving echos)
Sonar for water
Volume “loudness”
Decibels
Pitch “Intensity”
Musical Instruments and pitch
Musical Instruments and pitch
Musical Instruments and pitch
Hearing (bending of hairs)
Coclea (fluid filled…perilymph) canal
Fluid ripple of perilymph bends the hairs in the middle using the tectorial membrane
Auditory nerve & brain to process sound waves into sound