Sound travels through air only as compressions and rarefactions. Judge whether the Assertion (A) about transverse mechanical waves in gases holds, and whether the Reason (R) about shearing stress explains it.

Assertion (A): Transverse mechanical waves cannot travel through a gas.
Reason (R): A gas cannot sustain a shearing stress.

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Sound travels through air only as compressions and rarefactions. Judge whether the Assertion (A) about transverse mechanical waves in gases holds, and whether the Reason (R) about shearing stress explains it.

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Practising is step one. Knowing what to practise next is the hard part.

Practising is step one. Knowing what to practise next is the hard part