Physics
Grade-8
Easy
Question
Propagation of sound creates disturbance among the particles of ____.
- Air
- Water
- Wood
- All of the above
Hint:
Sound waves are mechanical waves
The correct answer is: All of the above
- Sound is a mechanical wave.
- Sound waves travel through a medium such as a solid, liquid, or gas by creating disturbances among the particles.
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In the options given below, if ‘C’ means compression and ‘R’ means rarefaction figure out which of the patterns represent the pattern of particles of the medium through which sound propagates.
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