A universal property of material objects is their ability to vibrate, whether the vibration results in an audible sound, as in the ringing of a bell, or is subtle and inaudible, as the motion in a quartz crystal. It can be a microscopic oscillation on an atomic scale, or as large as an earthquake. Oscillations in any part of an extended object or medium with undefined boundaries almost always propagate as waves.
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Major, F.G. (2007). Oscillations and Fourier Analysis. In: The Quantum Beat. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69534-1_2
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