Question about sound?

Question

I was wondering....
Say some people are talking quietly in a room with the door open. And there are some more people in the hallway and around a corner that can hear them. If the people in the hallway talked, would the people in the room be able to hear them as clearly as the people in the hallway heard them?

I know how sound travels already and nothing in this question actually happened.

Answer 1

Probably not. The sounds going into the hallway are "funnelled" more toward the hearer while those coming into the room are more likely to "fan out" or disperse making it harder to hear.

Answer 2

Sound conduction (acoustics) depends on several factors such as the walls, the wind if any etc. In this case, the conditions would be more or less same and so yes, the people in the room should be able to hear the people in the hallway.

Answer 3

Sound travels in longitudinal waves. It does go out the door, and it does go in the door. Whether they could hear as well inside the room may be dependent on outside noise as well as factors that absorb sound. Picture throwing a stone into a calm pond. A circular wave is formed that goes out from that point. That is somewhat how sound travels. But as sound travels it vibrates the material that it is traveling through back and forth in the direction that it is travelling.

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Answer 4

NO,BECAUSE THE SOUND DEPENDS UPON THE DISTANCE FROM THE VIBRATING BODY.GREATER THE DISTANCE SMALLER WILL BE THE LOUDNESS

Answer 5

Why? Who were you talking about who you are afraid overheard you?