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Is it true that electromagnetic waves are characterized by rarefactions and compressions?
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∙ 9y ago
No. Those phenomena are characteristic of longitudinal waves,
such as for example sound waves.
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∙ 9y ago
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Do transverse have compressions and rarefactions?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
Are compressions and rarefactions characteristics of transverse waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
Compressions and rarefactions are sections of?
Sound Waves
Compressions and rarefactions are kinds of?
They are the characteristics of waves ( both longitudinal and transverse waves).
Are the waves formed by sound transverse waves?
They are longitudinal waves. Because they form compressions & rarefactions when they move.
How does a longitudinal wave travel?
With the help of compressions and rarefactions longitudinal waves get propagated.
Are electromagnetic waves characterized by rarefactions and compressions?
No they are caused by changes in magnetic and electrical fields. When a magnetic field changes it causes an electric field that is perpendicular to it. And vice versa a changing electric field causes a perpendicular magnetic field. These changing fields propagate outwards at the speed of light and are what is meant by an electromagnetic wave.
What is the vibration of sound waves on eardrums?
The vibrations caused by sound waves onto your eardrums are pressure compressions and rarefactions.
How do the vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves?
The vibrations of an audio speaker produce sound waves by compressions and rarefactions in air particles.
How do sound waves spread or propagate from the source toward the space around it?
Sound disturbance is propagated by compressions and rarefactions through the air medium. Air is a material medium. If such a material medium is absent then sound waves cannot be propagated. These compressions and rarefactions confirm that the wave is of longitudinal in nature.
Where can sound waves not go?
Sound waves do not propagate in a vacuum, since they are basically vibrations (compressions and rarefactions) in a medium, and in a vacuum there is no matter to vibrate.
What do you call a series of compressions and rarefactions that travel in medium?
That sounds very much like the definition of sound waves - or more precisely pressure waves, which is what sound waves are.
