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Ultrasound 2015
Ultrasound 2015
Ultrasound 2015
What is Sound?
• Sound is propagated through a mechanical
movement of a particle through compression
and rarefaction that is propagated through
the neighbor particles depending on the
density and elasticity of the material in the
medium.
• Sound waves propagate mechanical energy
causing periodic vibration of particles in a
continuous, elastic medium.
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• Sound waves consist of mechanical vibrations
containing condensations (compressions) &
rarefactions (decompressions)that are
transmitted through a medium.
Sound is mechanical energy that needs a
medium to propagate.
Thus, in contrast to electromagnetic waves, it
cannot travel in vacuum.
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