How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?

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(N/A) When an object vibrates,it causes the neighbouring particles of the medium to vibrate.
These vibrating particles then transfer the energy to the adjacent particles.
Vibrations in an object create a disturbance in the medium,resulting in a series of compressions and rarefactions.
$A$ region of high pressure and high density is called a compression,while a region of low pressure and low density is called a rarefaction.
As the object continues to vibrate,it produces a series of successive compressions and rarefactions in the medium,which propagate the sound wave until it reaches our ear.

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