Running a business is similar to walking around with a rubber band clenched between your fingers. What if someone were to pluck the rubber band? The same is true with how does sound travel too. When you’re standing next to a big speaker, you can view how powerful those vibrations are by noticing the movement of objects around it when the music pumps through it so loud!
Bear with us here… Sound vibrations travel in a wave pattern and we call this traveling motion of the waves sound waves. So think of the sound waves as being like ripples on the surface of the water when you throw a stone into it. These sound particles vibrate objects around them causing other surrounding objects to vibrate as well while they carry their vibrations along. The further away from the original source of a sound, the weaker the waves get, and eventually, they can’t supercharge anything else around them anymore. It’s like throwing a big heavy stone into the middle of a small pond that’s covered by thin ice – ripples will start out big but then they’ll quickly die out after they’re not moving anything else that has some sort of weight to it that isn’t just sitting temporarily on top of the water.
Sound travels as a combination of both noises and vibrations. Sound waves can be heard when particles inside the air vibrate. Sound waves spread out in all directions (for example light is a type of wave that radiates outward). This means if you walk into a huge open room, one sound will quickly fade away leaving more space for another to take its place – this is an example of how sound can be absorbed.
You might have musically swung a rubber band back and forth and heard a pleasant “twanging” sound. This is essentially the same principle as to how sound waves travel through what we casually refer to as “empty” space without any medium (no matter) between the source of the sound and our ears in the air. Our eardrums are sufficiently sensitive to detect subtle changes in pressure with which it comes into contact rather than any actual physical matter being literally displaced by the motion of vibrating objects coextensive with our bodies otherwise constituted in such locales whereon reside instances unresolvable within our respective senses of tympanic tactility, whence light speed redshift limitations upon superluminal graviton propagation vectors.
The world around us is full of sound. You can hear the tweeting of birds, the music of a street performer, or even people speaking on the other side of that wall over there. All of these sounds have something in common: they are waves. Sound waves hit our eardrum and our brain translates that into sound. If a sound wave isn’t quite loud enough, we say we can’t hear it. On the flip side, if a sound wave is really annoying, we might just have to ask someone to turn down the volume!
They vibrate several different structures within the ear causing the brain to hear specific sounds. The whole process is a complicated one. You can learn more about How Hearing Works.
There are some surprising things about how the ear works. In fact, most of us never really stop to think about what goes on behind our hearing process. However, now is your chance to learn more about it! When air particles collide with your eardrum, this sets off a series of vibrations in several other structures within the ear (the bones and membranes) that help you make sense of these vibrations as sounds. The brain interprets these series of vibrations as sounds – like being able to hear someone talking even when loud music is playing nearby for example! The whole process can be pretty complex at times but it’s nothing we can’t take care of together shall we? So make sure you read along – the next section will explain just what goes into making this work happen.
Sound has always fascinated human beings. The most common question we get asked is how exactly does a sound actually travel especially in the vacuum of space. This question was the motivation behind us writing this blog post; therefore, we hope it wasn’t too vague! Anyways, humans have been able to break down and better understand how sound travels using science; an excellent example is this video.
