Why if someone is shouting you can hear it from hundreds of meters but if you were next to them you could hear them but not feel the air moving but you can feel a fan if you’re close to it but you cannot hear it from far away?
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Sound is a vibration of air molecules that propagates as a wave. Wind is just the bulk movement of air. Here’s an analogy:
You throw a rock into a river. That makes a ring of waves that move outward, right? That’s sound. All of the water in the river flowing in one direction is the wind.
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