Chapter 16
What is Waving and Why
by Eugene Patronis, Jr.
16.1 General Properties of Air
16.3 Non-Planar Wave Motion in a Tube
16.4 Plane Wave Tubes having Arbitrary Terminations
Unlike electromagnetic waves that can exist in a vacuum as well as in material substances, sound waves are mechanical waves and require a material medium in which to exist. The medium may be either a solid such as a bar of steel or a fluid such as water or air. Fluids are distinguished from solids in that a fluid will assume the shape of the container in which it is placed. If the fluid in question is a liquid ...
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