This document contains questions and answers about waves, sound, pitch, loudness, music, and acoustics. It defines key terms like amplitude, frequency, wavelength, longitudinal and transverse waves. It describes how sound travels as longitudinal waves and how we represent them as transverse waves when drawing them. It also addresses concepts such as reflection, diffraction, interference, speed of sound, loudness, pitch, intensity, music, instruments, chords, quality, Doppler effect, nodes and antinodes.
10. Question
Why are sound waves often
depicted as transverse waves
instead of longitudinal waves?
11. Answer It is often harder to draw
longitudinal waves. Therefore,
We represent sound waves using
transverse waves. The crests of a
transverse wave represent the
compressions of a longitudinal
wave. The troughs represent the
rarefactions.
23. AnswerLoudness is how you perceive
the energy of a sound.
Loudness depends on the
amount of energy it takes to
make the sound and the
distance from the source of the
sound.
27. Answer Intensity is the amount of
energy a sound wave carries
per second through a unit area.
Because the sound has more
area to cover as it moves away
from its source, the loudness
decreases as the sound moves
away from its source.
30. Question The amount of energy in a
sound wave doesn’t affect
pitch. If this is true, then why
does pitch sound louder when
the pitch increases?
31. AnswerIt does not affect pitch. Pitch
depends on frequency.
However, if you increase the
pitch to a very high note, then
it may seem louder because
human ears are more sensitive
to higher pitches.