CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Observe a demonstration of Snell's Illustration of Sound Waves from the Physical Science Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

HAVING to prepare some lectures on sound, I wished, if possible, to illustrate, without any very complicated apparatus, the way in which a sound-wave is propagated.

Sound wave is the disturbance of some patterns caused by the movement of energy travelling through a medium as it propagates away from the source of the sound. Therefore, it is a mechanical wave that ...

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