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Sound and Audiosphere

Dźwięk i audiosfera

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound

My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.

William Wordsworth, The Fountain.

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Sound

Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.

John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 476.

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Sound

If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

Source unknown, but apparently originating in the twentieth century; a 1910 physics book asks "When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is near by to hear it, does it make a sound? Why?" Charles Riborg Mann, George Ransom Twiss, Physics (1910), p. 235. See also: If a tree falls in a forest.

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