piano tuner wishes to use the beat frequency generated when two different notes are sounded together to tune one of the keys on a piano keyboard. She uses a tuning fork to tune the note named ‘A’ to 440 Hz. The next note higher than this should have a frequency of (approximately) 466 Hz. (a) If the speed of sound in air is 340 m s−1, what is the wavelength of the note named ‘A’?
Properties of sound
A sound wave is a mechanical wave (or mechanical vibration) that transit through media such as gas (air), liquid (water), and solid (wood).
Quality Of Sound
A sound or a sound wave is defined as the energy produced due to the vibrations of particles in a medium. When any medium produces a disturbance or vibrations, it causes a movement in the air particles which produces sound waves. Molecules in the air vibrate about a certain average position and create compressions and rarefactions. This is called pitch which is defined as the frequency of sound. The frequency is defined as the number of oscillations in pressure per second.
Categories of Sound Wave
People perceive sound in different ways, like a medico student takes sound as vibration produced by objects reaching the human eardrum. A physicist perceives sound as vibration produced by an object, which produces disturbances in nearby air molecules that travel further. Both of them describe it as vibration generated by an object, the difference is one talks about how it is received and other deals with how it travels and propagates across various mediums.
8.12 A piano tuner wishes to use the beat frequency generated when two different notes are sounded together to tune one of the keys on a piano keyboard. She uses a tuning fork to tune the note named ‘A’ to 440 Hz. The next note higher than this should have a frequency of (approximately) 466 Hz.
(a) If the speed of sound in air is 340 m s−1, what is the wavelength of the note named ‘A’?
(b) When these two notes are played together how many beats per second will she hear when these two notes have the frequencies indicated?
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