Mechanical Waves

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Mechanical waves can be transverse or longitudinal.

Waves only transport energy, there is no net transport of the medium in which they propagate.
 
I second the post above. The mechanical part is that wave propagation requires physical disturbance of the medium. For sound in air, the air molecules undergo compressions and rarefactions..
 

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