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Investigating The Properties of Sound

The document discusses properties of sound such as loudness, volume, and how sound is created through vibrations. It explains that loudness refers to the intensity or strength of sound, and that sounds gets softer the farther away you are from the source. It also discusses how applying more or less force to an object creates louder or softer sounds.

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Investigating The Properties of Sound

The document discusses properties of sound such as loudness, volume, and how sound is created through vibrations. It explains that loudness refers to the intensity or strength of sound, and that sounds gets softer the farther away you are from the source. It also discusses how applying more or less force to an object creates louder or softer sounds.

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Investigating the

Properties of Sound
Prepared by:
Maria Rosalia B. Apostol
• LOUDNESS refers to how strong the sound seems
to us when it reaches our ears.

• LOUD SOUND also means INTENSE SOUND.

• Sound loses intensity as it spreads outward in all


directions from the source. So the loudness of a
sound decreases between a person and the source
of the sound.
• The softness and/or loudness of a sound is called
VOLUME.

• If you control the volume of energy source of the


sound, you can have varying degree of loudness.
• SOUND is a type of energy made by vibrations.

• When any objects vibrates, it causes movement in


the air particles. These particles bump into the
particles close to them, which makes the vibrate to
causing them bump into more air particles. This
movement called SOUND WAVES, keeps going until
they run out of energy.
• When the vibrations are fast, you hear a loud
sound. When the vibrations are slow it creates a
soft sound.
Does Nature Have A
Song?
The Song of the Nature
• The sounds that you hear may vary in different
ways.

• Some sounds nay be too loud while others may be


too soft. The volume of a sound depends on the
strength of a vibration.

• The application of a stronger force causes a louder


volume of sound as in the case of the rumbling
thunder.
• A lesser forces makes a softer sound as in the soft
breeze of a fine day.

• Other soft sounds may not be loud enough to be


heard by the human ear.

• Loud sounds may not be pleasing to the ears


• LOUDNESS is a measure of how strong a sound
seems to us.

• If we apply greater force in an object, we produce


loud sounds.

• If we apply lesser force in an object, we produce


soft sound.
• The sound is heard louder if we are near the source
and the gradually fades or becomes softer as we
move away from it.

• The sound does not lose some of its energy as it


travel through the air.

• The energy just spreads out to cover a larger area


like the ripples in a pond or river.
When Does Sound
Become a Noise?
• NOISE is any undesirable sound which disturbs the
activities of human or animal life.

• Some sounds can distract us and break our


concentration. When this happens, the sound
becomes unwanted noise.

• Often it is not the pitch or loudness that makes a


sound annoying.
• Sometimes it is the repetitive nature of the sound
and our inability to control it that makes it
annoying.

• Car blowing its horn and the seemingly endless


barking of a dog at night are good examples.

• We could also include that we too in the classroom


contribute to production of a noise when we talk
altogether at the same time.

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