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RAJ089
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Does Electricity Conduct Through Sound?

02/09/2010 1:54 PM

Please help--

does electricity conduct through sound

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02/09/2010 1:59 PM

No. Sound is a wave of kinetic energy moving through air. Electricity is the flow of electron energy through matter. Electricity can travel through air, but sound waves in the air make no difference in that process.

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02/09/2010 5:32 PM

In fact, you can do just about the opposite. Sound waves propagating through a material can cause the resistance of that material to vary. Why, I'll bet you could take a pile of loose carbon and apply a voltage across it and then talk into.... Oh, really? Boudet did what? Darn! All my good inventions get stole by some European.

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02/09/2010 6:30 PM

That's nothing!

I invented a plastic once, that if stretched and charged electrically and coated with a conductive material, would produce an electrical output in proportion to the physical deflection. I thought it would make a great guitar pickup. I even had a good name for it, giezoelectric.

But, Lambert and Lambert said it sucked, so I forgot about it.
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02/09/2010 6:47 PM

LMAO!

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02/09/2010 6:22 PM

"does electricity conduct through sound"?

No, electricity conducts through wires.
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04/20/2010 9:02 AM

Yes, I agree with You.

But what is this Wireless stuff all around us.

would be interested in knowing about it.
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04/20/2010 10:12 AM

What wireless stuff ?

I have never heard about wireless electrical power transmission- efficiently (except in a transformer)

before some one adds : Motor generators are not electrical power transmitters
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Re: Does Electricity Conduct Through Sound?

02/09/2010 11:14 PM

Completely agred with preceeding answers... and taking a step furthur..

Electricity basically conducts through charge carriers, which are electrons (in most cases dsy to day).. and sound travels through air... so if you are concerned of conduction during sound travelling through air then,

It wont matter in most cases, but when the frequency is very high the air density will vary rapidly which can create variation in conductivity.... analyse the consequences by yourself.

And yes, I had assumed that the voltage is high enough for the dielectric breakdown of air...

BTW nice thought Thakral!!

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