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Slimy0233
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- Compressions and Rarefactions on a molecular level and how they manage to keep their initial positions after propagating sounds.
I am actually an undergraduate in Physics but I didn't understand this basic phenomenon. I saw this youtube video today and I was wondering how molecule in air would be able to regain it's initial position after it has transferred it's energy to the adjacent particle. Is it like a rebound, it transfers it's energy and after it, it acts like a ball with has just hit a wall and has enough energy to regain it's initial position.
Also, once the propagation of waves (multiple waves has changed, would that leave the air molecules undisturbed (Assume ideal condition and no disturbances other than the sound wave).
I also was gonna ask about the fact that how water was able to propagate sounds or have water waves, if it was incompressible. But this Stack_Exchange thread answers that question.
Also, once the propagation of waves (multiple waves has changed, would that leave the air molecules undisturbed (Assume ideal condition and no disturbances other than the sound wave).
I also was gonna ask about the fact that how water was able to propagate sounds or have water waves, if it was incompressible. But this Stack_Exchange thread answers that question.