Physics 5054 · O Level · Sound

Sound — practice question

A sound wave is made up of compressions and rarefactions. What kind of wave is sound, and how does the pressure in a rarefaction compare with the pressure in a compression?

  • Alongitudinal; smaller
  • Blongitudinal; greater
  • Ctransverse; smaller
  • Dtransverse; greater

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