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Sound in air that we hear with our ears consists of minute fluctuations in the ambient atmospheric air pressure. If we limit our attention to one dimensional spaces (like inside a narrow tube), we can write down a model for the fluctuating sound pressure. It helps to think of the total air pressure, P(t) as the sum of the static, ambient pressure \(P_0\) and the minute acoustic fluctuation, p(t), \(P(t)=P_0+p(t)\). Of course, if the pressure changes at a point in space, even by a tiny fluctuating amount, we would also expect the density (or total mass of the molecules of the gas for a given volume) to also change depending on the change in pressure.
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Miles, R.N. (2020). One Dimensional Sound Fields. In: Physical Approach to Engineering Acoustics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22676-3_2
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