Fionúir: How do we feel sound waves

How do we feel sound waves

Have you ever thought about how we can feel sound? Have you ever experienced it? When and where?


If you or somebody else hits a drum, the air vibrates inside it. This happens at a cool concert, for example when the delightful drummer hits the drums hard!! Your beautiful body or to be more exact your ventral cavity or other body cavities can vibrate. (Please see picture for more information on the human body). The reason for this is that sound waves need an air medium to travel. As we already know sound travels through air, water and gas.

Body cavities 

You can experience this if you are standing close to a stage and if somebody is not standing in front of you, you will feel the sound waves even more as there is nothing to absorb them in front of you. So hide behind the gigantic guy in front of you!

The song called “I wanna feel the music” is a good example of people singing about

trying to feel the music because they want to have fun! Please check it out on YouTube!!

Enjoy!


Sometimes even the ground where you are standing on or the surrounding walls can vibrate.

I noticed this when I was at the Taschenlampen concert last year with my friend, Bianca.

And I also noticed this at Lino’s mother’s birthday party when the band played out their music wonderfully. 


A drummer in action  

Sound waves can KILL!!!

Have you ever thought about why a bomb can actually kill people, for instance? An explosion can squash you like a horse can squash a poor little innocent fly! How terrible!!

A bomb is made up of heat, flames, shrapnel (pieces of sharp metal) and a pressure wave. The heat and flames and shrapnel might not kill you, but the loud B A N G just might!! The over-pressure can crush your internal organs (e.g heart, lungs, liver) causing you to bleed to death!! Sorry for these rather unpleasant details!! But it is fact!

Sound waves

The police and military have thought about using sound weapons where the concentrated pressure makes you feel nauseous (feel as if you have to vomit) and all confused. That means the criminal cannot run away and the police can arrest him/her. However, this is illegal at the moment.   

The next time you are at a concert, or maybe just waiting impatiently for the train to arrive, or listening to burly guys making loud noises on a building site, you now know that your cavities might be vibrating. The sound waves like your air cavities but not the cavities in your teeth! ;=)))

Look after all your cavities by not exposing yourself too much to loud noise and by brushing and flossing your teeth as often as possible.

Goodbye for now with that enlightening message.

Cheers Fionúir