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Glass windows may be broken by a far away explosion. Why?

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A far away explosion sneds out sound waves of large amplitude in all direction. When these sound waves strike on the glass-windows, they are set into forced oscillations. Glass beign brittle, the glass window breaks down as they start oscillatinig with forced oscillations.
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