Fundamentals of a Wave Heartsound Audio ***Krissy

 


fundamentals of a wave.


Waves are a disturbance in a medium, organized place to place in a regular way.  It propagates from one place to another via oscillations of points in the medium. Sound is just one example of this but so are ocean waves, waves on a string, etc.

The ​wave length​ is the distance between successive wave peaks. The ​wave frequency​ is the number of cycles per second of the wave. And the ​wave speed​ is the product of the wavelength and frequency.

Waves come in two kinds, longitudinal and transverse. Sound waves are longitudinal, the compressions and rarefactions are similar to the crests and throughs of transverse waves. 

The distance between sucessive crests or troughs is called wavelength. The height of a wave is called amplitude.

How many crests or troughs pass a specific point during a unit of time is called the frequency. The velocity of a wave can be expressed as the wavelength multiplied by the frequency.

Wave behaviour

Waves display several basic phenomena. In reflection, a wave encounters an obstacle and is reflected back. In refraction, a wave bends when it enters a medium through which it has a different speed.

 In diffraction, waves bend when they pass around small obstacles and spread out when they pass through small openings.

 In interference, when two waves meet, they can interfere constructively, creating a wave with larger amplitude than the original waves, or destructively, creating a wave with a smaller (or even zero) amplitude.


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