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Do waves travel in a straight line?
no
What type of wave does sound belong to?
Waves are vibrational movement plus travel along a straight line and come in two flavours. Sound waves are longitudinal, so the particles which they need to travel through are pushed and pulled, vibrating along the same axis as the direction of travel of the wave energy.
What is the bending of sound waves around a corner and the reason people can hear others talking around a corner?
Diffraction. You can hear people talking around the corner because Sound waves do not always travel in a straight line and sound waves spread out after passing throught a doorway. :)
How does a laser travel in a straight line?
Many think a laser travels in a straight line due to it being made of particles since particles travel in a straight line when not acted upon by a force. This is not why a laser is straight. A laser is actually a wave and waves are able to travel around corners. If you notice, ocean waves actually seem to bend around corners. Sound waves do the same thing so that you can hear someone in another room. Light waves can do the same thing. The reason they don't is because they are much smaller than the opening they pass through. Ocean and sound waves have a much longer wavelength than light does. If ocean waves passed into a harbor they would also travel in a straight line. When the wavelength is much smaller than the opening they pass through the interferance created by the corners of the opening, destroying all the waves that are not moving in the direction of the waves before they passed through the opening. Therefore, it is wave interference that causes it to be so straight.
Why can you hear your teacher through a closed door?
You can hear a teacher through a closed door of a classroom because the sound waves diffract or bend around corners. (Sound waves don't always travel in a straight line) Answered by: Nur _ _ _ _ _ _ Izyani
What is wrong a sound travels in a straight line b sound travels as a wave c sound is a form of energy d sound travels faster in vacuum than in air?
A is wrong. B is right C is right D is wrong A: Sound travels as a wave, therefore it does not travel in a straight line. B: Sound travels in a wave. C: The sound wave is a form of energy; all waves are. D: Sound cannot travel in a vaccuum. A is not entirely wrong.
Why doesn't light travel as straight or far in water as in air?
There are more things for the light waves to bounce off of in water, so light can not travel in a straight line or as far.
How does light travel in straight lines and in waves?
Yes..according to rectillinear propagation of light must travell in straight line...it also travells in the form of wave
Does high pitch sound travel in a straight line?
Not neccessarily. Any radiation from a point source is omnidirectional by definition - it spreads in all directions. That said, it's easier to focus/concentrate higher frequncies (both for radio and sound), so higher-frequency sound waves are more likely to be directional. Straight line? No, there will always be some spreading/dispersal/diffusion, and expect reflections as well.
How does diffraction allow us to hear music from another room?
Sound waves are diffracted around corners and so can be heard when the source of the sound is not in a straight line.
Do photons travel in a straight line?
Yes, they do. But they sometimes travel a straight line through bent space.
Why do light waves travel faster in empty air than in matter?
I believe it might be because the light has nothing to reflect off of so it would travel in a straight line
