A shock wave is generally thought of as a compression wave that radiates from a mechanical event, like an explosion. Same thing with earthquakes. There is a compression wave in all these events. We can see a compression wave originate from something breaking the sound barrier, and that's another example. Something moving faster than sound generates the shock wave on a continuous basis, and we hear the boom! as the wave reaches us. The same thing applies in sonar when the transmitter emits a "ping" into the water. The transducer vibrates, and a compression wave is generated. Where a source of mechanical energy causes movement, a compression wave can originate and radiate. It could be argued that compression waves originate from a source of sound. That's because sound is a mechanical wave, as it is mechanical energy. Certainly it generally isn't thought of as having the power of an explosion, though. In addition to the compression waves of sound, there are the "opposite" waves. These are areas where the air is rarefied or "uncompressed" between the areas where the compression waves are traveling. A shock wave is usually the term we apply to the leading edge of a compression wave from some mechanical event. It is carrying mechanical energy outward from the cause.
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Waves of movement are the results of the tectonic plates colliding at the focus of the earthquake, causing shock waves or tremors.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is a treatment in which shock waves are generated in water by lithotripters (devices that produce the waves).
Mechanical waves, shock waves, etc.
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Shock waves in the exhaust stream. See Wikipedia Shock Diamond and Afterburner(reheat).
The plates under the ocean moves which causes the water to have shock waves.
Your brain does not send shock waves to your muscles.
The duration of Shock Waves - film - is 1.5 hours.
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Shock Waves - film - was created on 1977-07-15.
Waves of movement are the results of the tectonic plates colliding at the focus of the earthquake, causing shock waves or tremors.
seismic waves
Interference will alter the pattern and rate of production of bow or shock waves. Bow waves are formed such as when a circular object plops in water. Shock waves are more linear in creation.
They rub together and send shock-waves outward from the epicenter due to friction between the two plates.
shock waves do not have a well defined wavelength, they most closely resemble a step function.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is a treatment in which shock waves are generated in water by lithotripters (devices that produce the waves).