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Compression, which is the "squeezing" together of molecules, and rarefaction, which is the expansion of the "squeezed" molecules back toward their original position, is the oscillatory behavior that causes sound waves. Individually, they are not types of sound waves, because for any wave you need both a disrupting force and a restoring force oscillating between each other.
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Compressions and rarefactions are sections of?
Sound Waves
Are compressions and rarefactions characteristics of transverse waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
Are the waves formed by sound transverse waves?
They are longitudinal waves. Because they form compressions & rarefactions when they move.
How do the vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves?
The vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves by compressions and rarefactions in air particles.
How do sound waves spread or propagate from the source toward the space around it?
Sound disturbance is propagated by compressions and rarefactions through the air medium. Air is a material medium. If such a material medium is absent then sound waves cannot be propagated. These compressions and rarefactions confirm that the wave is of longitudinal in nature.
Compressions and rarefactions are sections of?
Sound Waves
Are compressions and rarefactions characteristics of transverse waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
Do transverse have compressions and rarefactions?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
Are the waves formed by sound transverse waves?
They are longitudinal waves. Because they form compressions & rarefactions when they move.
What is the vibration of sound waves on eardrums?
The vibrations caused by sound waves onto your eardrums are pressure compressions and rarefactions.
How do the vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves?
The vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves by compressions and rarefactions in air particles.
Is it true that electromagnetic waves are characterized by rarefactions and compressions?
No. Those phenomena are characteristic of longitudinal waves, such as for example sound waves.
Where can sound waves not go?
Sound waves do not propagate in a vacuum, since they are basically vibrations (compressions and rarefactions) in a medium, and in a vacuum there is no matter to vibrate.
How do sound waves spread or propagate from the source toward the space around it?
Sound disturbance is propagated by compressions and rarefactions through the air medium. Air is a material medium. If such a material medium is absent then sound waves cannot be propagated. These compressions and rarefactions confirm that the wave is of longitudinal in nature.
What do you call a series of compressions and rarefactions that travel in medium?
That sounds very much like the definition of sound waves - or more precisely pressure waves, which is what sound waves are.
Do compressions and rarefactions decompressions in a sound wave travel in the same direction or in opposite directions from one another?
Rarefactions decompressions travel in the same direction, because sound are longitudinal waves.
Compressions and rarefactions are kinds of?
They are the characteristics of waves ( both longitudinal and transverse waves).
