Sound: A Periodic Wiggle In Time

Sound is an amazing spectacle, it is a thing that is made up of vibrating waves that move up and down back and forth. Two ways to think of sound in a real life example are: 1st a slinky; the way it jiggles back and forth is much like how a sound wave can jiggle, 2ond a water wave; the way that the wave looks much like a squiggly horizontal line that is what sound waves act much like. A vibration, A.K.A the up and down slinky motion and the to and fro water wave motion, are called vibrations. A definition of vibration is “ A periodic wiggle in time” (Hewitt), meaning a wiggle that happens periodically- over and over- and that takes up time. A wave is “ A periodic wiggle in both space and time” (Hewitt), this definition adds the space meaning that this is a three dimensional thing that is now happening. With the space now involved a way is something that extends from one space to another, much like light sound operates in waves extending from an object making a sound to something else bouncing off until it eventually reaches our ears. But …show more content…
You might even start asking about how it might bounce off of things, or pass through them going inside mountains or not, the truth is you probably don 't even know in the slightest degree possible. But they are getting to you, and those soundwaves of a radio tower are much different than the ones coming out of your mouth when you speak, if they were the same you would be able to hear music wherever you are anywhere, but you can 't you have to have a device that is able to take those waves and turn them into a sound that you can then