2007-05-17 15:11:58 · 11 answers · asked by sierra-dawn L 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No. Sound is a disturbance in a medium, like air or water. The air or water has mass, but the sound itself is just a movement of the molecules in that medium, and "movement" has no mass.
Your question is very much like asking if ocean waves have mass. The water that makes up the wave has mass, but the wave isn't the water, it is the energy that makes the water pile up that is the wave, and energy does not have mass.
2007-05-17 15:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sound doesn't have mass.
First lets define mass. Mass is the amount of matter contained in a substance. There is no substance in our consideration here.
Now lets see what sound is. Sound is nothing but disturbance or waves that propogates through matter (like air or water). Sound is a form of energy. Do not confuse it to be a mass.
Sound is measured in decibels.
2007-05-18 00:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by wenkey27 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This is because sound isn't really a physical "something" in the same way that things with mass are. Sound is actually the motion of the molecules that the air is made out of; sound is vibrations in the air.
It's similar to a wave in water. Only it's a wave through the air.
2007-05-17 22:17:02 · answer #3 · answered by extton 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sound does not have a mass, sound is just vibrations of 'nothingness' and your ear translates these vibrations into the nerve impulses to your brain and you 'hear' sound. Some say that it does have a mass because if you are at a concert with loud music you 'feel' bounces in your stomach and such. That is just because of the severe vibrations which are amplified by their amps. They are also called 'waves'. But no, they have no mass. Things require matter to have mass.
2007-05-17 22:19:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The predominant frequency RANGE or BAND which the bulk or body of a sound occupies. The term was introduced by Pierre Schaeffer as part of a TYPOLOGY of the SOUND OBJECT. The emphasis therefore is on mass as a perceptual or psychoacoustic variable.......
A sound's mass is what allows it to stay recognizable under transposition or transformation such as FILTERing.
2007-05-17 23:08:44 · answer #5 · answered by ô,ô 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sound don't have mass.Let me tell to u if what is a mass, mass is the weight of an object. while sound can make vibration.....
2007-05-18 00:39:21 · answer #6 · answered by AVIAN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No... sound is vibration in matter. Sound waves can travel through air or solid material. Sound can't travel in a vacuum... there's nothing to transmit it... if it had mass it would be able to affect the surrounding medium without regard for the density of the other material in that medium.
Sound is something we perceive, not something that exists in and of itself. It doesn't have any existence until someone or something creates it.
Check out this link for details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound
2007-05-17 22:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by John T 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Subtle in most cases, but yes nevertheless.
Stand in front of a bass speaker.
Can you feel the pulse?
What is the pulse?
Even if one considers that the pulse is the air mass moving from the source of the sound - one needs a mass to move a mass.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.........
2007-05-17 22:26:39 · answer #8 · answered by Lynne O'Dwyer 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No, But it is energy, and can have effects on matter and other things with mass. Some of these effect can by catastrophic, especially at higher levels.
2007-05-17 23:25:41 · answer #9 · answered by Dan N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, only matter has mass. Sound is not matter. Sound is the vibration of matter.
2007-05-18 00:39:43 · answer #10 · answered by mrlexington 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋