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Sound: Compressions and Rarefactions

  • Science
  • Class 9
  • 3D model
  • English

Sound: Compressions and Rarefactions: a 3D model for Class 9 Science, covering Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium such as air; the medium is needed…, A vibrating object pushes the air next to it, making a compression (high pressure and density), then pulls back…, Sound is a longitudinal wave: the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the same line the wave travels., The particles are not carried along by the wave; each one returns to its resting position after every full vibration., Wavelength is the distance between two neighbouring compressions (or two neighbouring rarefactions)..

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Also called

sound wave · longitudinal wave · compression and rarefaction · sound propagation · tuning fork · wavelength of sound · frequency and wavelength · sound needs a medium · vacuum and sound · pressure wave

Topics

  • Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium such as air; the medium is needed…
  • A vibrating object pushes the air next to it, making a compression (high pressure and density), then pulls back…
  • Sound is a longitudinal wave: the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the same line the wave travels.
  • The particles are not carried along by the wave; each one returns to its resting position after every full vibration.
  • Wavelength is the distance between two neighbouring compressions (or two neighbouring rarefactions).
  • Speed, frequency and wavelength are linked by v = f × λ; in the same medium the speed stays fixed…
  • A larger amplitude means more crowded compressions and more spread-out rarefactions (a louder sound)…

About this model

A GLB file of about 1926 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Tuning fork geometry: "Lab Assets" by MilkAndBanana, OpenGameArt (CC0 1.0), split into body and two moving prongs. Air channel, particles, graph, receiver, gauge, mallet and all animation: Lably. | Tuning-fork geometry: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication). Everything else is newly authored for Lably; no third-party share-alike terms apply.

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