Recent content by ymalmsteen887

Well I mean can you explain it or are you telling me to read a book on it? I want to keep it simple right now.

Are you going to respond or are we finished here? I'm not impatient I just thought you were wating for me to ask another question cause I was asking for clarification on my last comment.

Ok here is what I know so far sound is a pressure wave which is molecules vibrating back and forth and the wave is measured by the distance between two compressed or expanded areas. Whats the next logical step before I can understand attenuation of different frequencies?

Actually according to that link you gave me a water wave is bothe transverse and longitudinal.

Not sure what you mean do you think you could explain it in terms of a water wave. When you push down on water you are essentialy adding more voluume to it but it doesn't affect the entire body of water at once so it spreads out to do this so if you took youre hand in and out of the water you...

Is it only a wave if it has peaks and valleys? Can it not have just peaks or just valleys? I guess to make it easier is it possible to have half a wave start but not finish? I'm thinking no.

If you take a pendulum and push it will skip its resting position on the way back down this is easy to understand. The guitar string does the same thing but a speaker only moves from its resting poistion in one direction before returning to start over or is this wrong, I'm not sure?

When a guitar string vibrates doesn't it compress the air on one side and expand the air on another,thinking two dimensionaly, does this cause the sound to cancel? Wouldnt the compressed part of the wave wrap around to the expanded area?

When friction is applied to moving objects they slow down but sound doesn't slow down what causes sound to cease?

When you look at a sine wave you see displacement from the line in one direction(through) and then displacement the other direction(peak). Lets say the line representing equilibrium is the center. Does it move one way away from the center and then on the way back move in the other direction...

The red line isn't going behind the originall position. The molecules seem to be going back to their strating position.

Why does it have to move past the original postion. Why won't it just go back to the original postion and repeat?

How do you quote someone if you want to take a portion of what they said or like you did where you separated my sentences?

So how do you show that there is a wave. I know how to determine the wavelength speed of sound divided by frequency.Basically what represents the peaks and valleys of the wave in air?

Yeah I got that so far a guitar string moves pusihing the air next to it and pushing the air next to it right.