Chapter 2: Sound

Question 1

Do waves carry energy?
Yes or no?

Answer 1

Yes, all waves carry energy from location to another.

Question 2

Is sound a mechanical wave?
Yes or no?

Answer 2

Yes, in which particles in the medium move.

Question 3

What is a biological tissue?

Answer 3

Biological tissue is a collection of interconnected cells performing similar functions within an organism.

Ex. Blood, bone, tendon, ligament, adipose, and areolar tissues, etc.

Question 4

What is a medium?

Answer 4

Air, water, body fluid, soft tissues, blood, and bone.

Question 5

Can sound travel through a vacuum? Why?

Answer 5

No, because it must travel through a medium where the molecules are compressed and rarefied (stretched apart).

Question 6

Sounds travel in a:

Answer 6

straight line

Question 7

Sound waves are:

Answer 7

longitudinal waves

Question 8

Acoustic propagation properties are:

Answer 8

the effects of the medium upon the sound wave.

Question 9

Biologic effects:

Answer 9

the effects of the sound wave upon the biological tissue through which it passes.