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Sound Waves

ClassNotes Team 7 MIN READUPDATED 21 JUL 2026

Physics SSS2 Third Term

Sub Theme: Waves Motion without Material Transfer

WEEK 6

Sound Waves

Performance Objectives

Students should be able to;

  1. Identify the vibrating sources when sound is produced.
  2. Distinguish between noise and music intensity and loudness pitch and frequency as applied to sound.
  3. Explain forced vibration and explain how it is used to amplify a sound
  4. Use the relationship V = F˄ in solving numerical problems.
  5. Explain the formation of standing waves and produce these waves in stretching strings

Sound Waves

Content

We know that waves are the produced disturbance which are formed by vibration and travel through a medium. There are different types of waves like transverse, longitudinal waves, etc. even whatever we hear that sound…