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What's the difference between sound waves and pressure waves?

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Since a sound wave consists of a repeating pattern of high pressure moving through a medium it is sometimes referred to as a pressure wave

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Since a sound wave consists of a repeating pattern of high pressure moving through a medium it is sometimes referred to as a pressure wave

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Sound Waves:

A sound wave is a pattern of disturbance caused by the movement of energy.

Pressure Waves:

Pressure Waves may refer to one of the two main types of elastic body waves , called seismic waves in seismology.

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