Sound

monster continuously drinking water. I also became afraid of the dark because I thought a scary creature lurked down in the deep abyss waiting for me. Whenever I would go to the basement, I would ask my dad to come with me because I was terrified of the sound coming from the metal pipes running in the ceiling. Throughout my childhood, I felt forever horrified of the basement because of the incidents I had confronted.…

message from the advertisement and what personal factors might be affecting my perception of the advertisements. The sound wave path way from the Ear to the brain is starts at the pinnae which concentrate them and help them travel through the ear canal until the waves reach and hit the tympanic membrane.The tympanic membrane starts vibrating at the same frequency as the sound waves…

creativity. With more than two thousand musical instruments in the world, the ukulele is one that holds a unique sound and an overall blissful energy. The upbeat and cheerful tone it possesses makes it difficult to not crack a smile upon hearing it. While listening or even playing music, one does not typically think about how they are able to hear it. Music and other sounds create sound waves that travel into the ear, cause vibrations that pass through to the inner ear, and then sent to the…

This Advertisement is trying to show you how good their head phones are. By doing this they are showing us how much sound they block out sound. Image you are on a beautiful river, with the most perfect music playing through your ear, everything is nice and calm, you don’t have a worry in the world. All of a sudden you are thrown off a huge cliff, which just so happens to be a water fall and before you know it everything goes black. You can still hear the beautiful music playing in your ears. You…

find prey. Dolphins use echolocation, which is a process of sending sound waves, to find prey. A second type of natural noise are underwater earthquakes, avalanches, and volcanoes. Earthquakes can produce sounds when they have high magnitudes. Volcano eruptions have also been heard underwater. Ice break-up and calving is a third type of natural noise in the marine environment. When ice breaks off from glaciers it makes a sound. Shipping, bathymetry, and oil & gas are 3 types of anthropogenic…

back, Adair experimented with listening to podcasts, with the idea that she could at least learn something rather than just blasting mediocre music all the time. But in the natural pauses between the speakers' phrases and sentences, the deafening sound of her neighborhood's 7:00 am silence…

it be the drums, guitar, or piano, there is usually some form of sound constantly flowing into everyone’s ear drums. Once I decided on playing the alto saxophone, everyone was just as enthusiastic about it as I was, which only help spur my eagerness to practice more passionately while enjoying this new gift and talent that I was slowly understanding. There are many great perks to playing the sax. The aesthetics of its crisp clear sound, and its complicated, but smooth flowing body, are sometimes…

music seems to be more available and used more often. Hearing loss due to exposure is a growing concern. To combat this growing concern, should a limit be set on how loud headphones are allowed to go? The recommended level of unprotected exposure for sound is 8 hours a day at 85, decibels, as recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Overexposure to loud noise can cause loss of hearing in everyone. Some music players can go up to 105 decibels at which the maximum…

instruments playing together on stage, but does it even have to be that? Music can have absolutely no sound, but still be considered music. So what makes music “music?” I believe that music is any sort of sound whether they are organized, or unorganized that come together that make the listener feel something in some sort of way. These sounds do not even have to mean anything at all. The sounds do not have to have any sort of rhythm or pitch either. However there is a line between a performance…

patterns. Also, periodic waveforms have a tone. Most musical instruments have repeating periodic waveform. The periodic waveforms can also be found in bird sound and human vocal voice. However, an aperiodic waveform dose not have a repeating waveform and tone, like noise, the engine idling. 2. Specify the first 5 harmonics of a period sound with a fundamental at 200 Hz. (1 point) Answer: the first harmonic is 200 Hz. The second harmonic is 400 Hz. The third harmonic is 600 Hz, the fourth…