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Aditya Prabhakar's avatar

Well, there is a problem, there is a concept in waves called superposition of waves. Let's assume we hypothetically made a container that 100% reflects sound waves without any loss of energy, But when it will bounce back from the walls of container, it's phase will change by π radians (assuming the density of material of container is more than air density) and will surely superimpose with the initial wave, this creating a standing wave. In standing wave, there will be a point (node) at which it will be completely silence forever and at some point ( antinode) it will be the point where are the all the sounds will play at a time loudly.

So in conclusion, the sound will not remain same.

Note -> This same concept is used in Microwave ovens.

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Prashast Singh's avatar

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You are indeed correct, so the overall conclusion once again becomes, that traping sound in its initial phase, is not possible. Will explore more on this, in the upcoming blogs.

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