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Sound waves


Larryz

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Sound waves are three dimensional pressure waves.

They are three dimensional because the pressure in a fluid is the same in all directions. So the ruler moving up and down in the air generates regular pressure fluctuations in all directions.

It is these fluctuations that are transmitted across the room as a sound wave.

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