Q: How can a speaker recreate any sounds, such as people's voices?
It's quite simple really.
First we must understand what sound is. Sound is vibration waves in air. In some ways similar to ripples and waves in a pond. When a stone is thrown into a pond, it makes a series of waves that move away from where the stone dropped into the water. The stone contacting the water is the SOURCE of the vibration waves.
Sound in air is similar. It has a source, let's say the human voice. The human voice is created by the vocal cords which vibrate and the sound is changed by the shape of the mouth. The vocal cords vibrate back and forth as we speak and that movement is like the stone repeatedly hitting the surface of the pond making wave after wave.
The distance between the waves and the time it takes from one wave to the next wave is called the FREQUENCY. The closer the waves and the
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