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Is sound potential or kinetic energy

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Sound energy (that is, mechanical vibrational waves passing through an elastic medium) is a combination of kinetic and potential energies. As the wave compresses the medium (storing elastic potential energy) the medium comes to rest (no motion so no kinetic energy).

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