Does the end of the rope. Go supersonic and if so, why
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Sound waves are just air compressing and decompressing.
Imagine a spring. The spring gets squished together and then bounces apart to its regular shape.
A force causes air molecules to get squished, then they un-squish and bump into adjacent molecules causing them to squish. The process repeats creating a wave through the air.
That pressure wave runs into your ear drum and it gets interpreted as sound.
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