Knock on your table. It creates a sound by shockwaves in the material inserted from your knuckles hitting the surface with force. Now go to your car and knock on the hood and the front fender. It not only sounds different from the table ( different material), even the two knocks on the car sound different even though the material is the same. The shape of hood and fender guide the waves differently which creates different sounds
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