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When a gong vibrates the air particles next to athe gong do not reach your ears yet you hear the sound of the gong explain?
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Sound propagates as a disturbance in air pressure. The movement of the gong first pushes air particles out of the way, creating a region of high pressure, but then moves back in the other direction, creating a region of low pressure, which the air particles move back to fill. So, air particles do move locally as the pressure changes, but there is no net transport of air. The energy in the wave is carried forward as a moving change in pressure. This change in pressure is detected by your ears.
One can make a loose analogy with surface waves on water. Drop a pebble into a still pond. Waves will propagate outward from the point of contact, where water was initially displaced. The water waves propagate outward as the height of the water changes at each point, yet there is no net flow of water.
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