The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students who are studying sound waves, ultrasound and seismic waves. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you! You can ...

Question submitted by Zachary Gramke’s fourth-grade class at Two Mile Prairie Elementary School. Both light and sound are waves; light is an electromagnetic wave, and sound is a mechanical wave. When ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

To the recording studio to study interference and diffraction of sound waves. Unit 6 Segment D: Sound: Diffraction and Interference We head back to the recording studio to study interference and ...

Sound has a speed limit. Under normal circumstances, its waves can travel no faster than about 36 kilometers per second, physicists propose October 9 in Science Advances. Sound zips along at different ...