We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music – Albert Einstein
Learning Objectives#
In this unit, the student is exposed to
- waves and their types (transverse and longitudinal)
- basic terms like wavelength, frequency, time period
- velocity of transverse waves and longitudinal waves
- velocity of sound waves
- reflection of sound waves from plane and curved surfaces
- progressive waves and their graphical representation
- superposition principle, interference of waves
- characteristics of stationary waves, sonometer
- fundamental frequency, harmonics and overtones
- intensity and loudness
- vibration of air column – closed organ pipe, open organ pipe
- Doppler effect and its applications