Great to hear from you Khloe! Certainly scientists can study sound using the scientific method. Science can give us data on sound waves. Sound waves are actually not made of matter. Sound is energy that travels through other matter. We call that matter the medium.

For example, sound travels through air, a medium. After you speak, your vocal folds make sound. The air molecules vibrate and bounce off each other, which allows a sound wave to travel. Try shouting underwater to hear how sound travels through water.

Check this link out for a cool demonstration of piano sound waves! You'll see the blue dots, which are the air molecules.

Sound waves are studied by many scientists for many reasons, so they are very scientific! By studying sound, we can design theaters that sound better, use it to look at distant objects (like bats!), understand whale conversations, and much, much more.

Sound is created by the movement of atoms in waves, kind of like the waves in the ocean. A sound wave itself doesn't have mass, since it is the motion of the existing matter. (Although physicists are still studying this question, and it turns out it might be more complicated!)

Hi Khloe, your question is an interesting one! If by scientific you mean "understood by science," then yes, we have a good understanding of sound waves.

Sound waves do not have any matter to them, but are actually waves in the density of air; in some areas, the air contains more molecules and a little later, fewer. This type of wave is known as a longitudinal wave (not a transverse wave, like light or a wave in the ocean). A greater density in the air molecules in air leads to regions of high pressure while fewer molecules causes low pressure. So, waves in the density of air cause differences in pressure that are then felt by our ears and interpreted as sound by our brain.

In the same way that sound travels through air (oscillations in pressure), sound travels through water. Instead of changes in air pressure though, sound waves traveling through water causes changes in the water pressure. Because water is denser than air, sound waves actually travel faster through water. This is similar to how a wave through a piece of fabric travels faster if you pull the fabric tight relative to if it is loose.

Sound waves are scientific in that sound travels in the form of waves, like a vibration, it's not just a figure of speech! Sound waves don't have any mass themselves, instead they are travelling vibrations of particles through a medium like air or water. They can't travel through a vacuum like outer space where there are no atoms or molecules to vibrate.

Yes, sound waves are scientific. Sound is a vibration. The air molecules are moving back and forth, faster or slower, when different sounds move through them to your ear.

You can do experiments about sound with rubber bands. Stretch them tight across a little box and pull on them to see them vibrate and hear their sound. It's good to have rubber bands that are thicker and thinner, so you can hear the different sounds they make. Also, if the box is a rectangle, you can put a rubber band across the sides of the box and then across the ends of the box, to see if the sounds are different.

When I taught hands-on elementary school science, I used plastic tofu boxes. They make great sounds with rubber bands. The tofu box probably vibrates a little, too. A cardboard box is softer, so it doesn't vibrate much.

You can also tap your fingernail against different things to hear the different sounds you get. Those tapping sounds are just short vibrations that don't last very long.

This is an interesting and fun site: Sound - Science World

The field of science that describes how sound waves work is called 'acoustics'. Acoustics is a field of physics.

Sound waves do not contain matter. They contain energy. They carry this energy by causing the matter that the sound waves are passing through to vibrate back and forth.

Waves in general are disturbances that move through "something", where the "something" is generically called the medium. Sound is a particular type of wave where the disturbances are mechanical compressions and rarefactions.

In other words, sound is a series of regions where material is pressed slightly closer together and then pulled slightly farther apart which travels by pushing on adjacent pieces of material. Each particle of the material pushes or pulls on its neighbors and displaces them, thereby transporting the sound wave through the body.

There isn't a good way to say how much matter is in a sound wave but there are a couple ways to try. On one hand, a sound wave could propagate throughout the entire medium that it is produced in, meaning the "amount of matter" in the wave is whatever amount of matter makes up the thing in which the wave is generated. However, the sound wave will decrease in intensity as it spreads out and some of the wave could be converted to non-sound energy or transferred to other material in contact with the medium of interest. One could also use the material in one wavelength (that is, in one compression/rarefaction pair) using the relationship v = L * f where v = wave speed in the medium, L = wavelength, and f = frequency. Speed is determined by the properties medium and is a constant, and f is related to the note being played. For a given note, the wavelength is then given by L = v/f, and the "amount" of matter in the wave could then be the volume given by L multiplied by the cross-sectional area of the wave. However this does not exclusively determine the amount of matter in a wave since the area is undetermined - the same note could be produced in a tube 1 inch in diameter or 100 inches.

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speed of sound
anatomy of a wave