# Longitudinal waves and sound notes

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- [Sound waves and ultrasound](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/longitudinal-waves-and-sound/sound-waves-and-ultrasound) — Sound Waves and Ultrasound Sound is one of the most familiar forms of wave energy. Every time you speak, listen to music, or hear thunder, you are experiencing sound waves travelling through the air…
- [Longitudinal waves](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/longitudinal-waves-and-sound/longitudinal-waves) — Longitudinal Waves Not all waves look like the familiar up-and-down pattern of a transverse wave. Longitudinal waves move through a medium by creating regions where particles are pushed together and…

## Other Physical Sciences topics

- [Transverse pulses and waves](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/transverse-pulses-and-waves)
- [Electromagnetic radiation](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/electromagnetic-radiation)
- [Electrostatics](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/electrostatics)
- [Electric circuits](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/electric-circuits)
- [States of matter and the kinetic molecular theory](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/states-of-matter-and-the-kinetic-molecular-theory)
- [The atom](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/the-atom)
- [The periodic table](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/the-periodic-table)
- [Chemical bonding](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/chemical-bonding)
- [Physical and chemical change](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/physical-and-chemical-change)
- [Representing chemical change](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/representing-chemical-change)
- [Quantitative aspects of chemical change](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/quantitative-aspects-of-chemical-change)
- [Vectors and scalars](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/vectors-and-scalars)
- [Motion in one dimension](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/motion-in-one-dimension)
- [Energy](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-10/physical-sciences/notes/energy)

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