Why doesn't a sound wave create a breeze?

Answer 1

Because waves only move energy, not material. If they're mechanical waves,

then the material along their path just wiggles but doesn't move from one place

to another. So there's nothing to blow in your face.

Certainly, the sound wave causes increased pressure against your face. But it

does that hundreds of times every second, and after every pressure increase

comes an equal pressure decrease.

And EVEN if The Wiggles of a sound wave were slow enough for you to feel the

alternating increase and decrease of pressure against your face, you still would

never feel it . . . the amount of pressure against your ear drum that it takes to

hear a sound is so tiny that you'd never detect it on any other part of your skin.

Answer 2

Sound waves are pressure waves that travel through a medium like air. These waves do not displace air in the same way as wind or a breeze, so they do not create physical movement of the air molecules that would be felt as a breeze. Instead, sound waves transmit energy through the medium they are traveling in, causing vibrations that are perceived as sound.