Wave properties and behaviour

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A rail technician strikes the flat end of a long steel railway track with a heavy copper mallet to test for internal flaws.

A diagram showing a mallet striking the flat end of a long solid steel rail. Arrows show the direction of the impact force. Inside the rail, circles representing particles are shown packed closer together in some regions (compressions) and further apart in others (rarefactions) along the length of the rail. Each particle has small double-headed arrows pointing back and forth, parallel to the length of the rail.

Describe how striking the end of the steel rail causes a sound wave to travel along the inside of the rail.

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Wave properties and behaviour Questions

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