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Sound energy - Wikipedia

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Form of energy that can be heard by living things

In physics, sound energy is a form of energy that can be heard by living things. Only those waves that have a frequency of 20 Hz to 20 kHz are audible to humans. However, this range is an average and will slightly change from individual to individual. Sound waves that have frequencies below 20 Hz are called infrasonic and those above 20 kHz are called ultrasonic. Sound is a longitudinal mechanical wave and as such consists physically in oscillatory elastic compression and in oscillatory displacement of a fluid. Therefore, the medium acts as storage for both potential and kinetic energy.[1]

Consequently, the sound energy in a volume of interest is defined as the sum of the potential and kinetic energy densities integrated over that volume:

W = W p o t e n t i a l + W k i n e t i c = ∫ V p 2 2 ρ 0 c 2 d V + ∫ V ρ v 2 2 d V , {\displaystyle W=W_{\mathrm {potential} }+W_{\mathrm {kinetic} }=\int _{V}{\frac {p^{2}}{2\rho _{0}c^{2}}}\,\mathrm {d} V+\int _{V}{\frac {\rho v^{2}}{2}}\,\mathrm {d} V,}

where


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