全部书籍

专业

应用 关于 Coach 登录 开始阅读

书籍暂未推出简体中文版——当前显示英文版。

Physics · 术语表

什么是 Sound wave?

又称: compression · rarefaction · longitudinal wave

Definition 21.1 High School Physics · 第 21 章 — Sound and Acoustics

A sound wave is a mechanical pressure wave (Chapter 20): a vibrating surface creates traveling compressions (slight overpressure) and rarefactions (underpressure). Air parcels oscillate along the travel direction (sound is longitudinal), and a medium is needed: a bell under a vacuum jar falls silent (Chapter 8).

A loudspeaker drives a longitudinal wave: parcels bunch into compressions one wavelength = v/f apart.
A loudspeaker drives a longitudinal wave: parcels bunch into compressions one wavelength λ=v/f\lambda = v/f apart.

示例

Example 21.4 (The sizes of sounds)

The relation λ=v/f\lambda = v/f sizes any sound: in air a 20 Hz20\,\mathrm{Hz} rumble spans 340/20=17 m340/20 = 17\,\mathrm{m} — a building — and a 20 kHz20\,\mathrm{kHz} hiss fits in 1.7 cm1.7\,\mathrm{cm}; the metre-sized ones bend easily around doors and corners.

在原文中阅读 →