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True or false: When your ear detects sound, there is an actual collision of particles from the sound wave that hit your ear drum
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True or false: When your ear detects sound, there is an actual collision of particles from the sound wave that hit your ear drum

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True: For a sound wave to propagate, air particles must be displaced in the direction of propagation - it is the displacement of these particles that causes the eardrum to vibrate and recognize the sound.

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