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the vibration of the particles of medium of the sound waves causes the sound waves to travel

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What causes sound to travel?

Sound waves are produced by vibrations, which causes disturbances in the surrounding medium .These disturbances are transferred from the source in the form of longitudinal waves.


What does sound travel on?

Waves; sound waves.


What forms when a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate?

When a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate, it creates sound waves. Sound waves are mechanical waves that travel through a medium by causing the particles of the medium to vibrate and transfer energy in the form of sound.


What can sound waves not travel in?

sound waves can't travel in a vacuum (space)


How do sound waves travel to a satellite?

Sound waves require a medium to travel through, and, since space is a vacuum, sound waves can't travel in it.


Sound waves cannot travel on the?

Sound waves cannot travel through vaccum.


Where do sound waves travel through?

Sound waves travel through a medium, such as air, water, or solids. In air, sound waves create vibrations that travel through molecules in the form of pressure waves. These waves carry the sound energy and allow the sound to be heard by our ears.


In what waves do sound travel?

Sound travels in longitudinal waves.


What is the objective of travel faster radio waves or sound waves?

sound waves


Are the sound waves that travel to the ear for hearing transverse or longitudinal?

Sound waves that travel to the ear for hearing are longitudinal waves.


What is one place sound waves cannot travel?

Sound waves cannot travel in space. Sound waves some medium in order to propagate.


Why are sound waves not considered a mechanical wave?

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.