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Sound — Physics STD 10 — Question

ICSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10PhysicsSound2 Marks
Question
Two musical notes of the same pitch and same loudness are played on two different instruments. Their wave patterns are as shown in following Figure.



Explain why the wave patterns are different.
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Answer

Different instruments emit different subsidiary notes. A note played on one instrument has a large number of subsidiary notes while the same note when played on other instrument contains only few subsidiary notes. So they have different waveforms.

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