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I had a question with Passage 1, Q#3 in the TBR Physics Ch5. It's basically talking about how when you listen to a recording of your own voice, it sounds different than when they listen to themselves speak aloud. The answer was
"You hear your spoken voice with a lower frequency than you hear your taped voice: bone transmits low frequencies better than air does."
This answer made intuitive sense to me from experience, but for some reason I thought that if it transmits through bone, bone is solid, and so the sound should travel faster. I figured a faster traveling sound wave might mean a higher frequency heard instead. I was just wondering if someone could explain why the above answer is correct using formulas or something?
Any help is much appreciated,
Abe
"You hear your spoken voice with a lower frequency than you hear your taped voice: bone transmits low frequencies better than air does."
This answer made intuitive sense to me from experience, but for some reason I thought that if it transmits through bone, bone is solid, and so the sound should travel faster. I figured a faster traveling sound wave might mean a higher frequency heard instead. I was just wondering if someone could explain why the above answer is correct using formulas or something?
Any help is much appreciated,
Abe
