County Jail. The Sheriff is responsible for maintaining the San Miguel County Jail. Responsibilities include taking in inmates for arrests made by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in the County. This includes the towns of Telluride, Norwood, Mountain Village and Colorado State Patrol.
Characteristics of a sound wave. Since sound is a wave, we can relate the properties of sound to the properties of a wave. The basic properties of sound are: pitch, loudness and tone. Pitch. The frequency of a sound wave is what your ear understands as pitch. A higher frequency sound has a higher pitch, and a lower frequency sound has a lower pitch.
Sound is actually an energy wave of molecules that create a vibration. Sound can travel through and bend around many objects, including water. Check out how sound works: 1  When an object moves it creates a vibration. 2  Vibrations move air particles around. 3  These moving particles are constantly bumping into each other. 4  Our ears can pick up these particle-vibrations as sound. 5  Fast moving particles create a high sound, while slow ones are low-sounding.