What is the best description of sound waves?

a. a source vibrates up and down, causing air molecules to move up and down perpendicular to the direction the wave is transmitted
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b. a source vibrates back and forth, causing air molecules to move back and forth in the same direction that the wave is transmitted.

c. a source vibrates up and down and back and forth, causing air molecules to move in a circular motion as the wave is transmitted.

d. a source ejects a ring of high-velocity air molecules that travel from the source to a listener.

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force is based upon mass and acceleration.the statement is not always true.

it can be explained from newton's second law of motion.

as per newton's second law of motion the rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the applied force and takes place along the direction of force.

mathematically it can be written as -

                                              ⇒      

here   k is the proportionality constant whose value is 1.

                                                            [a is the acceleration=dv/dt]

hence we see that force not only depends on mass and acceleration but also on velocity and rate of change of mass. force f will depend on mass and acceleration only when mass is constant.

hence the statement that force is based upon mass and acceleration is false.