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Sound Quality and Applications
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Music vs. Noise Music –sounds that have a pleasing quality, a definite identifiable pitch, and rhythm –musical instruments use standing waves to produce sound.
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–Types of musical instruments percussion (drums, bells, cymbals) – vibrations of membranes or metal stringed (guitars, violins) - vibrations of strings woodwind and brass (flutes, pipe organs, trombones, clarinet) – vibrations of air columns –many instruments sound better and louder when two objects are vibrating at the same frequency; this is called resonance example: both the guitar strings and body vibrate
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Noise –sounds that have no pleasing quality, no identifiable pitch, and no relationship between high and low pitches –when noise reaches a level that cause pain or stress it becomes noise pollution
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SONAR –uses ultrasonic waves in a system called SOund Navigation And Ranging –determines distance by the time it takes sound to bounce back; formula is d = v · t –Uses of SONAR map the ocean floor military Applications of Sound
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Bats and Whales –send out ultrasonic waves that bounce back to locate objects just like SONAR
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–Use ultrasound waves to create sonograms very high frequencies (1-15 million Hz) sound travels at different speeds through materials with different densities (bone- high, tissue-low density) used in medical facilities to get a picture the human structure, including a fetus that is growing can even be concentrated to destroy bad tissue Medical
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