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Longitudinal waves, the result of earthquakes, also known as Primary, or P-Waves, are faster than Transverse (Secondary) Waves.
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Which forms of matter can primary and secondary seismic waves travel through?
Primary seismic waves are longitudinal waves. Longitudinal waves can travel through solids, liquids and gasses (although seismic waves are of to low a frequency to normally be heard). Secondary seismic waves are transverse waves and only travel through solids.
What kind of wave are sound waves?
Sound waves are longitudinal waves; they travel from side to side, not up and down like transverse waves.
What type instrument produce transverse wave?
If you mean sound waves, the only type of sound waves that can travel through air (or any gas, for that matter) is longitudinal waves.
Light waves are classified as what waves?
Optical light waves are "Electromagnetic" waves. The colour seen is dependent on the wavelength of the light. Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves where the oscillation is 90 degrees to the direction of travel (unlike sound waves which are longitudinal).
What are the two different types of waves?
transverse and longitudinal Well, it depends on what your teacher explained. However earthquakes can be: 1) tectonic, 2) volcanic or can be 1) natural, 2) induced (that is induced by human activity, such as mines and reservoirs). Any scientific site like that of the USGS could be a useful source of information.
Which waves are fastest?
Primary waves as they travel like a worm, compressing and then expanding
Do longitudinal waves have high energy?
Yes. Longitudinal waves can produce standing waves.
Are pressure waves longitudinal waves?
Longitudinal waves travel in a medium due to alternate compression & rarefactions ie. they travel due to variation in pressure.
Why a longitudinal wave can not be made to travel along a string?
Longitudinal waves travel on a string!
Waves that compress and expand in the direction that the waves travel?
Longitudinal waves.
Where do longitudinal waves travel?
longitudinal waves definitely requires a medium(air,water,solid) in order to transmit it does not travel through vaccum
What do sound waves travel as?
Longitudinal Wave
Is ultrasound a transverse or longitudinal wave?
Sound, at least in gases like air, can only propagate as a longitudinal wave.
How does a longitudinal wave travel?
With the help of compressions and rarefactions longitudinal waves get propagated.
Matter vibrates in the same direction as these waves travel?
Longitudinal waves.
How does longitudinal wave travel?
Longitudinal waves are waves that have the same direction of vibration along their direction of travel, which means that the vibration of the medium (particle) is in the same direction or opposite direction as the motion of the wave. Mechanical longitudinal waves have been also referred to as compressional waves or compression waves
How are sound waves longitudinal?
Yes sound waves are longitudinal, rather than transverse, the oscillate parallel to the direction of travel
