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can light collectively or individual photons act as a medium for propagation of sound waves?
Not frequent enough to transmit sound, but sometimes they do collide.DrClaude said:photons do not collide with each other.
It's not clear what the context of this question is. It is certainly possible to use a powerful, modulated light beam to vary the temperature in a gas at a high rate, which could manifest itself as an audible pulse as the gas expands. But i don't know of a system that actually uses the effect to 'transmit' an audio signal and directly produce sound without some intermediate form of transducer.aditya_the quazarboy said:can light collectively or individual photons act as a medium for propagation of sound waves?
I don't think that radio waves change the temperature t transmit sounddukwon said:Ever listened to a radio?
dukwon said:Ever listened to a radio?
If you focus a powerful case beam onto a small volume, it will raise the temperature fast and that can be audible. It is very hard to produce heating of air with focussed radio waves as the losses are too low to provide enough energy.lychette said:I don't think that radio waves change the temperature t transmit sound
That would be electrical heating - not optical.Buckleymanor said:What about lightning.
The lightning isn't carrying any information that represents a sound.Buckleymanor said:What about lightning.
mfb said:Not frequent enough to transmit sound, but sometimes they do collide.
There has to be some equilibrium, especially if we ignore processes that change the number of photons.Vanadium 50 said:That means the most energetic photons tend to interact more, and thus lose energy.
No, photons cannot act as a medium for sound. Sound waves require a physical medium, such as air or water, to travel through. Photons are particles of light and do not have the properties necessary to transmit sound waves.
Photons do not have the necessary properties to transmit sound waves. Sound waves are mechanical vibrations that require a physical medium to travel through, while photons are energy particles that do not have the ability to transmit vibrations.
No, sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum using photons as a medium. A vacuum is an absence of any physical medium, so there is nothing for the photons to transmit the sound waves through.
While photons cannot act as a medium for sound waves, they can be used to transmit information that can be interpreted as sound. This is how fiber optic cables work - they use photons to transmit data, which can then be converted into sound waves by a device such as a speaker.
Yes, there are other particles that can act as a medium for sound. For example, in solids, sound waves can travel through particles such as molecules, atoms, and electrons. In liquids and gases, sound waves can travel through the movement of molecules.