Members CoqBelliqueux Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I would think that for something to happen 4 times in one second, it would have to happen faster than if it happened 3 times in one second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Yes, but if it swings faster, the frequency increases. No it doesn't. Because it has further to move. That's why a pendulum is useful as a time keeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I would think that for something to happen 4 times in one second, it would have to happen faster than if it happened 3 times in one second. No. It happens more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steadfastly Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 This is a warm sound, very warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CoqBelliqueux Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 No. It happens more often. Does it have to be faster to happen more often in the same amount of time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Does it have to be faster to happen more often in the same amount of time? Not necessarily, no. Think about how often raindrops hit your roof or how often a bicycle passes in front of your house ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ToneChase Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 The waves we are talking about all travel at the same speed... the speed of sound.The distance between them gets closer together as the frequency rises but they still travel at the same speed.More wave crests go by per second, but they are still traveling at the same speed. If you're talking about how fast a wave goes BY, that's the period, and it takes a shorter amount of time for one wave cycle to pass as frequency goes up and wavelength gets smaller...If you're talking about how fast a sound wave GOES, that's the speed of sound and is constant. IMO it's pretty arbitrary... I'm just gonna tune my guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 This is a warm sound, very warm. I had the unfortunate chance of witnessing the explosion of a car bomb in Budapest the week I turned 40. It happened in the next street, about 150 meters from where I stood. Two things struck me: one was the eerie silence that followed (not the screaming and yelling I would have imagined) and the second, in reply to your post, how extremely high pitched and short the sound of it was, a sound that can only described as COLD. Not the usual Hollywood low pitch sound effect applied to explosions in movies. Four dead (so I heard in the news later that evening). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CoqBelliqueux Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 The waves we are talking about all travel at the same speed... the speed of sound.The distance between them gets closer together as the frequency rises but they still travel at the same speed.More wave crests go by per second, but they are still traveling at the same speed.If you're talking about how fast a wave goes BY, that's the period, and it takes a shorter amount of time for one wave cycle to pass as frequency goes up and wavelength gets smaller...If you're talking about how fast a sound wave GOES, that's the speed of sound and is constant.IMO it's pretty arbitrary... I'm just gonna tune my guitar Alrighty then. As long as you don't tune UP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steadfastly Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I had the unfortunate chance of witnessing the explosion of a car bomb in Budapest the week I turned 40. It happened in the next street, about 150 meters from where I stood. Two things struck me: one was the eerie silence that followed (not the screaming and yelling I would have imagined) and the second, in reply to your post, how extremely high pitched and short the sound of it was, a sound that can only described as COLD. Not the usual Hollywood low pitch sound effect applied to explosions in movies. Four dead (so I heard in the news later that evening). I am very sorry that you went through such a traumatic experience. I hope my attempt at humour didn't cause you any emotional discomfort. Regards, Steadfastly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PINKUSFLOYDUS Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Warm is a tube amp...Bright, etc. is everything else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I am very sorry that you went through such a traumatic experience. I hope my attempt at humour didn't cause you any emotional discomfort. Regards, Steadfastly Oh don't worry. Your humour was good. I wasn't traumatised by it but it does give the daily TV news a different meaning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Frequency = waves per second. Amplitude = the size of the wave forms. (Tempo = beats per second and is usually associated with a mechanical occurance like a metronome or clock, not sound itself) You can increase or decrease amplitude without changing freqency. You can increase or decrease frequency without changing amplitude. They are two completely different things. One is based in time and the other in size When someone says A440HZ, the definition of "Hertz" is waves per second, no more no less. Amplitude can be measured in "Decibels" for hearing and audio volume scales or volts when measuring the electrical wave heights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Radar-Love Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I had the unfortunate chance of witnessing the explosion of a car bomb in Budapest the week I turned 40. It happened in the next street, about 150 meters from where I stood... It was a mob hit. More than 10 years later, they caught the perpetrators in the Czech Republic: http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/budapest_bom/ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0DB163EF930A35754C0A96E958260 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 It was a mob hit. More than 10 years later, they caught the perpetrators in the Czech Republic: http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/budapest_bom/ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0DB163EF930A35754C0A96E958260 ... Thanks for that, Radar. I've got to show this to my wife. She was with me and saw all the windows shake on the buildings from that side of the explosion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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