Sound Rarefaction
Created by Sarah Burch (Sburch8)
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A Mathematical Model
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See also
Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
Further reading
A Text-book of Sound by Edmund Catchpool, 1931 Rarefaction Wave Interaction of Pressure-gradient System by The Pennsylvania State University, 2007
External links
References
http://www.iu.edu/~emusic/acoustics/sound.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG_zBBTO-Qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrbXpTa9xLg