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The 35 pages that link to Sound wave, each with the reason it gives.

• Electromagnetic radiationCompared with: Unlike sound, electromagnetic radiation can travel through vacuum without a material medium.

• Shock waveCompared with: Unlike a shock, an ordinary acoustic wave has gradual, small changes in pressure.

• PhononCompared with: A classical sound wave is a macroscopic description; phonons are quantized lattice excitations.

• Acoustic impedanceNarrower topic: Impedance characterizes the pressure-flow relation within acoustic waves and systems.

• Superposition principleRelated: In a linear acoustic medium, pressure disturbances from separate sources combine by addition.

• Adiabatic processRelated: Rapid compressions and expansions in ordinary sound propagation are approximately adiabatic.

• AcousticsBroader topic: Sound waves carry acoustic energy from vibrating sources through air and other materials.

• MicrophoneNarrower topic: A microphone converts this incoming acoustic disturbance into an electrical signal.

• SineRelated: Pure tones can be represented as sine waves in pressure over time.

• Incompressible flowCompared with: Acoustic waves rely on compressibility, unlike the usual incompressible-flow approximation.

• Acoustic resonanceNarrower topic: Acoustic resonance is a behavior of sound waves in a system.

• SoundBroader topic: Sound propagates through a medium as acoustic waves.

• Radio frequencyCompared with: Acoustic waves require a material medium, unlike electromagnetic RF waves.

• P wavesCompared with: Sound waves share P waves' compressional motion, but are not specifically seismic.

• Sound pressure levelNarrower topic: The pressure fluctuations in a sound wave are the input measured by sound pressure level.

• UltrasonographyNarrower topic: Ultrasound imaging depends on sound traveling through tissue and reflecting at boundaries.

• Blast waveCompared with: Ordinary acoustic waves are weak and nearly linear, unlike a strong blast’s shock front.

• Plane waveBroader topic: A plane acoustic wave models sound traveling uniformly in one direction.

• Radio waveCompared with: Unlike sound, radio waves are electromagnetic and can travel through vacuum.

• SoundboardRelated: The soundboard launches sound waves through the surrounding air.

• Longitudinal waveBroader topic: In air and fluids, sound commonly travels as a longitudinal wave.

• Sound pressureNarrower topic: Sound pressure is the pressure component of this broader kind of propagating disturbance.

• Sound recording and reproductionNarrower topic: Recordings represent patterns in the pressure variations that reach a microphone or stylus.

• Transverse waveCompared with: Ordinary sound in fluids is longitudinal, unlike a transverse wave.

• Acoustic phoneticsNarrower topic: Speech is carried through air as changing pressure.

• Internal waveCompared with: Internal waves are restored mainly by buoyancy, not compressibility.

• Sound absorptionNarrower topic: Absorption acts on the energy carried by these waves.

• RecorderNarrower topic: Recorder tones are sound waves produced by oscillations in the instrument’s air column.

• ThunderNarrower topic: Thunder reaches the ear as sound waves traveling through air.

• Wave vectorRelated: Its wave vector specifies the direction and spatial oscillation of sound propagation.

• Édouard-Léon Scott de MartinvilleRelated: The phonautograph converted sound-wave motion into a visible trace.

• Restoring forceRelated: Elastic restoring forces in the medium help neighboring particles transmit sound.

• Vocal sacNarrower topic: Calls traveling through air are the signals the vocal sac helps shape.

• OcarinaNarrower topic: Air vibrations in the ocarina become sound waves radiated into the room.

• Stokes's law of sound attenuationNarrower topic: The law describes how fluid losses alter this wave as it travels.