How does sound waves travel? ii it possible to capture them while they are traveling?

Question

give some information about soundwaves....

Answer 1

aren't sound waves captured when we hear? i don't know alot about sound, hopefully someone else does.

Answer 2

Sound waves are a pulse or vibration through a medium of matter, this can be solid, liquid or gas.

You can not capture sound because it will go right through objects, however you can convert the energy into other forms of energy.

A microphone for example converts sound energy into electrical energy (the electrical energy then used to record on disc).

Our ear converts sound waves into nerve stimulus by vibrating tiny hair like structures in our cochlear (inner ear). A nerve stimulus is a chemical transmission.

You can slow sound so that it continues to get fainter, eventually stopping it, but if this happens then it no longer is sound.

Answer 3

how can you capture sound?

can you place a box in front of a speaker and hope that you hear the same sound if you take it away?

please...frame your questions slightly better

Answer 4

Indeed, when we hear a tone we are stopping some of the sound wave and converting it into mechanical and electrical energy. The rest of the sound wave continues to propogate from the source. However the act of capturing the wave changes part of it it and that part can no longer consist of a wave.

If you are satisfied that the rest of the waves pass on but the part captured and detected does not, then the answer is yes it is possible. But if you want the part of the wave that is detected to return as a wave to continue, then the answer is no, it is not possible.

Answer 5

u cant capture a vibration..............