Sound Waves
Hearing
Properties of Sound
Interactions of Sound
Music
100
Part of the ear at the end of the ear canal that starts the vibrations in the ear
What is the eardrum?
100
How high or low a sound is
What is Pitch?
100
Reflected sound waves
What is an echo?
100
Difference between music and noise
What is pleasing to the ear?
200
Disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave
What is sound?
200
Mixture of soundwaves that do not sound pleasing together
What is Noise?
200
Loudness of sound is measured this way
What is Decibels?
200
Measures the time it takes to detect reflected sound waves
What is sonar?
200
The pitch of a large drum in comparision to a small drum
What is higher pitch?
300
Sound waves with frquencies above the normal human range of hearing
What is ultrasound?
300
The part of the ear that translates sound waves into nerve impulses
What is the Cochlea?
300
1st person to break the sound barrier
Who is Chuck Yeager?
300
Temperature, elasticity, and loudness
What is Speed of sound?
300
note C-sharp played on a trumpet sounds different from the same note played on an oboe
What is Timbre?
400
using reflected sound waves to find objects
What is echolocation?
400
Study of how well sounds can be heard in a particular room
What is acoustics?
400
Apparent change in the frequency of a sound caused by the motion of the observer or source of the sound
What is the Doppler Effect?
400
2 or more sound waves interact
What is Interference?
400
Sound produced when notes that seem to have no musical relationship are played together
What is dissonance?
500
sound travels through a medium as
What is a longitudinal wave?
500
Aging, injury, and infection
What are causes of hearing loss?
500
Sound wave is the amount of energy the wave carries per second through a unit area
What is Intensity?
500
Contains the Cochlea
What is the inner ear?
500
Main groups of musical instruments
What is strings, percussion, brass and woodwinds?
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