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What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
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What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?

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Sound is basically compressed air that our ears detect and turns them into neural impulses, which our brain can then detect as sounds.
A high or low sound is determined by the frequency
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