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Ripple in water is a surface wave.
In classical mechanics, a mechanical wave is a wave that is an oscillation of matter, and therefore transfers energy through an elastic material medium. Vacuum is, from classical perspective, a non-material medium, where electromagnetic waves propagate.
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