Loudness: The greater the sound energy, the louder is the sund.The lodness depends upon the ampliteud of the osund waves.
Explanation: The loudness of the sound enable us to distinguish between a faint and the loud sound. Loudness depends upon the following factors.
i. The area of vibrating body:
Larger the are of vibration larger will be amplitude of sund produced.
ii- Distance from the sources of sound:
The loudness of a sound increases or decreases as the distance between the surce of sound and the listneer decreses or increases respectively.
3- Metarial through which sound in traveling:
amplitude of sound wave is differnet in different materials such as, water and air.
Example: A drum produces loud sound if its memberane is struck strongly. This is because the vibrating body starts to oscillate with larger amplitude and there fore the sound it produced also has a larer amplitude and as a result the sound is louder.