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Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. Applications of acoustics are for instance the audio and noise control industries.
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How do transverse sound waves (in solids) convert to longitudinal waves (in gases)?
I know that in solids sound can be a transverse wave and that in gases it is a longitudinal wave. The question is what happens at the boundry at the two substances? What is the mechanism of conversion …
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