Sound Waves University of TennesseePHYS 221Lab 13.

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Lab 13: Sound Waves Grayci Amason, Jordan Tasman, Koriun Ivory Exercise 1  What do your hands do to produce this sound? - Our hands collide together at a forceful motion.  How does the soun ... d reach your ears? - The sound waves are longitudinal waves so it travels through air.  Sketch pressure in the cylinder as a function of position along the cylinder axis for the figures (a) and (b) to the right. Experiment 1 a) Paste your graphs into your Word document. How do the microphone voltage patterns compare? Describe your observations. - Single Clap- Continuous Humming- The sound intensity for the clapping is higher than the sound intensity of the continuous humming; however, its only for a short period of time (less than a second). The sound intensity for the continuous humming starts of at a higher intensity at first pitch, but then it decreases and remains constant over a longer period of time. b) Paste your graph into your Word document. Does your humming sound wave have a definite frequency? How do you justify your answer? [Show More]

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