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When a sound wave propagates through the air, allowing you to hear someone shouting on the...

When a sound wave propagates through the air, allowing you to hear someone shouting on the other side of a room, have the air molecules from the person shouting traveled to your location so that you hear the sound? Explain.

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No, air molecules does move carrying sound wave with them from one person's mouth to another person's ears instead when one person shouts he creates vibration in longitudinal direction of air molecules adjacent to mouth . This vibration of energy is transmitted in longitudinal direction from one molecule to next and so on up to where it reaches another person's ears. Sound waves are mechanical waves they loses their intensity and energy due to molecular friction as they propagates in the air .

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