4.

4 Loud and soft sounds

4.5 Sound volume

Learning Outcome
Demonstrate and state how sounds can be
loud or soft
Demonstrate and state how sounds can be
high or low
 What Is Sound?

How do you hear sound?

What sounds do you hear right now?
What responses do you have to sounds? Why?
RECAP
 What Is Sound?

Sound is anenergy,
caused byvibration,
that creates wave .
s
 Energy
• Energy means the ability to do work, or move an object with force.

• Sound moves the air (or matter) around us.

• Sound occurs when an object is vibrated by a force.

 Vibration

For sound to be produced, an

object (or matter) needs to be
vibrated or moved by a force.
 Soundwaves
The initial vibration used to make a sound
vibrates the matter, surrounding it in a
chain reaction and creating waves.
What is pitch?
Pitch - how high or low the sound is .
Higher pitch - the length is
shorter, the string is thinner so
the vibrations is faster.

Lower pitch - the length is

……….., the string is ……… so
the vibrations is ……… .
What is
volume?
How to make sound softer?
 Review
• Why is sound considered to be ‘energy’?
(Remember that energy is the ability to do
work or use a force to move an object.)
• Model the movement of sound from the
source to a human’s ear drum.
 Review
What is the relationship between pitch, frequency, and wavelength?

• Compare the sounds of a jet plane’s

engines and a parakeet chirping.
• Use the words pitch, frequency,
wavelength, and voulme in your
comparison.
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