sound waves cause air particles to vibrate back and forth ripples cause water particles to vibrate up and down Waves cause a disturbance of the medium through which they travel. This allows them to ...

Sound is the vibrations of an object. It is transmitted in the form of waves with alternate increase and decrease in pressure. A vibrating object compresses the surrounding air molecules making them ...

Yale scientists used laser light to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis for information storage. The result was published online April 2 in the journal Nature ...