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How can waves transfer energy without transporting matter from one place to another? ​

How can waves transfer energy without transporting matter from one place to another? ​
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How can waves transfer energy without transporting matter from one place to another?
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A Wave Transports Energy and Not Matter
When a wave is present in a medium (that is, when there is a disturbance moving through a medium), the individual particles of the medium are only temporarily displaced from their rest position.
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