How can waves transport energy without transporting matter from place to place

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Ratikanta Patra · Answer 1 · 2016-01-09T21:44:54+0000

As waves pass through matter, whether it's a gas, solid, liquid, etc., this matter on a molecular level is displaced (the molecules are displaced) and this translates to kinetic energy.

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