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The transducer only has one degree of freedom, but the diaphragm has infinitely many 3D (axial, radial, displacement) vibrational modes, arguably 4D since different input frequencies generate different vibrational modes. There are some really pretty gifs at the end of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations_of_a_circular_membrane