Working Principle of Speakers
How many times every day do you hear recorded music on the radios on TV , in stores, in elevators —even in the street? You'd never hear music at all if it weren't for loudspeakers : electric sound-making machines. Most of the music we hear around us is played back with big loudspeakers attached to stereos or tiny earbud headphones . Radios , televisions , computers , cellular phones , intercoms, and talking toys are just some of the electric gadgets that make sounds with loudspeakers. But what exactly are loudspeakers and how do they work? Photo: These neat little Sony bookshelf speakers have a built-in amplifier and a long jack lead, so you can plug them into a CD player , MP3 player , computer , or anything else with a standard headphone socket. They pack quite a punch for something so tiny because they have a reasonably high sensitivity, which is explained below. How loudspeakers turn ele...