Mechanical Wave

Real World Example

Imagine trying to send a handwritten letter to a friend, but you don't have a postal service to deliver it. Just like the letter needs a mail carrier to reach its destination, a mechanical wave requires a medium, such as air, water, or solid matter, to travel through. In this analogy, the postal service represents the medium, the letter is the wave, and the delivery process is how mechanical waves like sound and ocean waves propagate by moving through matter.