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Sound Through Air

  • Physics
  • Class 5–8
  • 3D model
  • AR card
  • English

See compressions and rarefactions in front of a speaker.

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Sound Through Air

Also called

sound waves

What to look for

  • A vibrating source disturbs nearby air.
  • Sound in air has alternating compressions and rarefactions.
  • Air particles vibrate back and forth while the disturbance travels onward.

Try this

Compare the direction of particle vibration with the direction of sound travel.

Topics

  • sound waves

About this model

A GLB file of about 1988 KB, 67,920 triangles, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Lably-authored schematic teaching model. See /ar-library/credits.html.

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