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Define shear waves?
Shear waves are transverse wave,
Sound waves are longitudinal waves, but
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Sound waves from solid as shear waves i.e. sound waves are transverse or longitudinal? Explain

raju nagula , 6 Years ago
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Arun

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Sound is a longitudinal wave and propagates from the solid into the gas as a longitudinal wave. It is possible to get transverse waves in solids and they are generally known as shear waves. However we would not normally describe a shear wave as asound waveShear waves in a solidwill not propagate into a gas

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