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Longitudinal Waves By Jason Torres Summary

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In "Passage 1: Sound is All around Us, Sound is Energy" Jason Torres claims that sound is a form of waves that vibrate in one directions called longitudinal waves."The distance between two adjacent compressions, two adjacent rabout the longitudinal arefactions, or a single compression and rarefaction combined is a wavelength of a sound wave." This is Jason Torres ' definition of Longitudinal Waves. The wave measures the sound and pitch. This pitch and sound can differ due to the extent of energy/waves released.

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