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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- explain correctly the meaning of the emboldened terms in the main text and use them correctly in context
- describe simply what a pressure wave is and give a simple explanation of sound in terms of a travelling pressure wave
- explain ‘cycle’ in terms of an oscillating source and the pressure wave it produces
- relate amplitude (including peak-to-peak and r.m.s.), frequency, period and wavelength to a sinusoidal waveform
- calculate the wavelength of a pressure wave from a graph of pressure against distance
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