there is several ways that waves can move. waves can move by wind. the energy passes to the water causing waves.
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Waves move because they are a movement of energy through a medium. The wave entails two parts, which are the crest and trough. The wavelength is the distance between two crest. The wave height is the distance between a crest and trough.
The water particles move in a circular motion. If you looked at a cross section of a wave moving to your right, the particles are moving in a clockwise direction. The particles don't really move with the wave, just in a circle.Source(s):
Water particles (molecules) move transversely to the direction of propagation of the wave. That means that as the wave moves out across the water, which is its direction of propagation, the water molecules move up and down (transversely) to create the crests and troughs of the wave.
IT flows all directions depending which way the wind is blowing and how hard its blowing
They simply do simple harmonic motion about its mean position
By the wind.
they move by the ocean
surface waves move up and down
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Sound waves cannot travel through vaccum.
Electromagnetic waves don't need anything to travel. This kind of waves does not need a medium to move through, therefore they can even travel through outer space.
light waves do not need a medium. Electromagnetic Waves (EM) do not need a medium. For example visible light, radio waves, microwaves, UV light and x-rays do not. These travel @ 300 million meters/sec in a vacuum.
Electromagnetic
seismic waves travel in all directions. the reason we know is because of earthquakes.
Because they are waves, and waves travel that way.
no p waves travel faster than s waves
sound waves bounce off of walls. they need air to travel.
electromagnetic waves can travel through vacuum while water waves travel in water.
Shear waves travel through solids. They cannot travel through liquids and gasses (unlike compressive waves) and they can't travel through a vacuum (unlike electromagnetic waves).
Waves need not require medium to travel through. Only Mechanical waves like sound waves require medium to travel through. Electromagnetic waves travel in vaccum like light waves. Some waves transmitted in a medium due to disturbances in the medium .
sound waves can't travel in a vacuum (space)
Mechanical waves need a medium to travel in
Light waves travel from sun to the earth.
NO some waves like sound require matter to travel whereas light waves can travel in vacuum.
Sound waves require a medium to travel through, and, since space is a vacuum, sound waves can't travel in it.
The type of waves that travel through matter are Electromagnetic waves.