The energy in a sound wave is both kinetic and potential.
Just as in a vibrating spring, the medium has mass and moves and so moving mass is kinetic energy.
Just as in the spring there is compression and rarefaction, so there is elastic potential energy.
In fact, these two are equal, potential energy = kinetic energy, just like a spring.
Just like in a vibrating spring, the total energy is constant and equal to the average kinetic energy plus the average potential energy.
A 'mechanical' wave really means that something which has mass is made to vibrate, rather than an electrical wave where an electromagnetic field - no mass - is vibrating. When a mass is displaced, in microscopic terms, the little springy bonds between the molecules are stretched or compressed. When the deforming forces are removed they spring back, overshoot and the whole mass-spring system oscillates which is what happens in earthquakes.
Because it needs a medium in order to travel
sound waves are called mechanical waves because they need material medium for propagation of wave
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They both move energy through a field without moving a substance.
To convert sound waves into mechanical waves
Light waves are eletromagnetic waves and sound waves are mechanical waves. Additionally, a light wave is a transverse wave that does not require a medium through which to travel. Sound waves, on the other hand, are longitudinal waves where the source transfers the mechanical energy of the sound wave into the medium so it can travel.
Sound waves are longitudinal waves; they travel from side to side, not up and down like transverse waves.
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sound waves are a example of mechanical waves
They have the same wavelength and harmony. Sometimes the amplitude.
Mechanical waves are waves that require a medium in which to travel, i.e., a solid or fluid. As sound needs a medium to travel, sound is a mechanical wave.
Mechanical waves such as sound and water waves.Electromagnetic waves, such as light, radio, microwaves, x-rays.
sounds waves are longitudinal and mechanical waves
They have the same wavelength and harmony. Sometimes the amplitude.
Yes it is.
Seismic waves are mechanical waves.
Sound waves are mechanical waves and all mechanical waves require a material medium for its propagation unlike electromagnectic waves
No. Sound waves are mechanical waves.
they're mechanical waves