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Sound waves have pressure, power, intensity, and energy. These facts became evident at the walls of Jericho some years ago. If you weren’t there at the time to experience the event, then you may anyhow have experienced chest wall vibrations at rock concerts—or when listening to music in a booming car. Like light waves from a laser, sound waves have pressure, power, intensity, and energy.
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Hartmann, W.M. (2013). Sound Intensity. In: Principles of Musical Acoustics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1_10
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