When a guitarist plucks a string to start the vibration, it not only vibrates the string, but it also vibrates the entire box of the guitar. This is called a forced vibration, which means that the motion of the original source vibration is also causing another object to vibrate (the box of the guitar). Since the box is larger than the string, it amplifies the vibration and makes it louder.
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