Did u know facts about sound?

The speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour (1,230 kilometres per hour). The loud noise you create by cracking a whip occurs because the tip is moving so fast it breaks the speed of sound! When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through air.

What are some interesting facts about sound and light?

Light waves are very similar to sound waves, but can move much faster. Sound travels at about 1090 feet per second or 330 meters per second while light travels at 186,000 miles per second or 299792.458 kilometers per second. In equations, the speed of light is often written as the letter C.

How is sound created?

Sounds are made when objects vibrate. The vibration makes the air around the object vibrate and the air vibrations enter your ear. You hear them as sounds. You cannot always see the vibrations, but if something is making a sound, some part of it is always vibrating.

What are 10 facts about sound?

Here are some facts to catch you up.

• Sound cannot travel through space since there are no molecules to travel through.
• Do you know what is louder than a car horn?
• The loudest natural sound on earth is caused by an erupting volcano.
• Dogs are capable of hearing sounds at a much higher frequency than humans can.

How does sound get to the brain?

Sound waves from an instrument or a sound system reach the outer ear. In the middle ear, the sound waves cause the eardrum and tiny bones to vibrate. The middle ear passes these vibrations to the inner ear. The electronic signals are carried into the brain by nerve cells called neurons via the cochlear nerve system.

What is a sonic sound?

sonic Add to list Share. The adjective sonic means related to audible sound or to the speed of sound waves. If something goes faster than the speed of sound, it creates a sonic boom, a shock wave that sounds like an explosion.

Who invented sound?

The first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and patented in 1878.

Is whispering a sound?

whisper, speech in which the vocal cords are held rigid, preventing the vibration that produces normal sounds. In whispering, voiceless sounds are produced as usual; but voiced sounds (e.g., vowels) are produced by forcing air through a narrow glottal opening formed by holding the vocal cords rigid and close together.

What are 5 facts about sound?

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