Acoustic and Resonance Terms

Edit Answers
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940
Across
  1. 2. Some portion of the sound wave that is not transmitted or absorbed bounces back from the surface of the boundary and travels in the opposite direction
  2. 5. Pressure is constant and steady
  3. 7. The distance from crest to crest, trough to trough, or a point on one wave cycle to the corresponding point on the next wave cycle
  4. 12. Used to visually represent simple harmonic motion or all the energy located at one frequency.
  5. 15. The difference in pressure
  6. 18. Sound passes through something
  7. 19. Multiple reflections (echo)
  8. 20. “the quantity of three-dimensional space occupied by a liquid, solid, or a gas (measured in liters)
  9. 21. The property of an object to return to its original shape
  10. 22. a smooth back and forth motion
  11. 26. a force that “acts perpendicularly on a surface” (measured in dynes and pascals)
  12. 27. Consist of a series of frequencies that are systematically related to each other
  13. 30. Characterized by waves that consist of two or more frequencies
  14. 31. something that is set into vibration by the action of another vibration
  15. 32. That frequency at which an elastic system will vibrate if set into vibration and left alone.
  16. 36. a vibratory response to an applied force
  17. 38. Wave changes direction because of a local difference of temperature in the air
  18. 40. Light waves
Down
  1. 1. deals with space
  2. 2. Molecules are spaced out
  3. 3. Loudness
  4. 4. Pitch
  5. 6. deals with time
  6. 8. is known as Rarefaction
  7. 9. is known as Compression
  8. 10. Two or more frequencies but the frequencies are not systematically related to each other
  9. 11. Maximum point of compression
  10. 13. Wave changes direction due to an obstacle
  11. 14. one compression and one rarefaction
  12. 16. “any influence that causes an object to undergo a change in speed, a change in direction, or a change in shape” (measured in newtons and dynes)
  13. 17. A branch of physics concerned with the properties of sound
  14. 23. A disturbance (sound source) creates changes in pressure throughout an elastic medium.
  15. 24. a tone comprised of one frequency of vibration
  16. 25. Sound waves
  17. 28. Objects or systems are forced into vibration
  18. 29. Damping of a wave
  19. 33. Molecules are close together
  20. 34. Maximum point of rarefaction
  21. 35. time it takes for 1 cycle to occur; measured in seconds; milliseconds
  22. 37. Multiples of the fundamental frequency
  23. 39. “refers to the amount of matter in an object” (measured in kilograms or grams)