Answer: when the wave encounters something, it can bounce (reflection) or be bent (refraction). In fact, you can "trap" waves by making them bounce back and forth between two or more surfaces. Musical instruments take advantage of this; they produce pitches by trapping sound waves.
Explanation: Any bunch of sound waves will produce some sort of noise. But to be a tone - a sound with a particular pitch - a group of sound waves has to be very regular, all exactly the same distance apart. That's why we can talk about the frequency and wavelength of tones.
You would have to give it more mechanical energy.
Like, strap a bunch of powerful rockets to one side of the moon, with all of them pointing in the direction that the moon is already moving in its orbit. Then blast away.
NOTE: There aren't enough rockets or rocket fuel on Earth to make a difference, even if you used ALL of them. The mass of the moon is about
<em>73,476,730,900,000,000,000,000 kilograms</em>
(rounded to the nearest hundred trillion kilograms.)
That's a lot.
The easiest way I know to explain it is this:
-- Take a flashlight and a ball into a dark room.
-- Turn on the flashlight and point it at the ball.
-- Half of the ball is lighted up by the flashlight, and the other half is dark.
-- There is no way you can turn or twist the ball to make more or less
than 50% of it lighted up and more or less than 50% of it dark.
<em>Everything</em> in the solar system ... as long as it's shaped like a ball ... is
half illuminated by the sun and half dark.
