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Sound is a longitudinal, mechanical wave that requires a medium.
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What kind of wave has matter at right angles to direction wave travels?
That sounds like the description of a transverse wave.
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Sound is a kind of wave, i.e. it travels in a waveform. It also has an energy but is negligible.
Sound travels in what kind of wave?
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What kind of wave that travels only through matter?
I suppose that you think to sounds (acoustic waves).
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seismic waves
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The seismic wave that travels the fastest is known as the P-wave.
Sound travels as a blank wave?
sound travels as a sound wave........
What is material through which a wave travels?
The general term for what a wave travels through is a medium, but in the case of earthquakes the wave travels through the ground.
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Light travels in self inducing electromagnetic spectrum.
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The speed of a wave is how far the wave travels in one unit of?
The speed of a wave is how far the wave travels in one unit of time.
The material through which a wave travels is?
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The material in which a wave travels is called?
The material through which a wave travels is called a medium.
Which type of wave travels by pushing and pulling on matter it travels through?
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Sound travels as a what?
Sound travels as a wave.
Why do the particles which the wave travels and the direction the wave travels relate each other?
It depends on whether the wave is a transversal or longitudinal wave. A transversal wave has particles in the medium oscillating in a direction perpendicular to the wave's direction. This is the case in for example water wave; the water moves up and down, but the wave moves forward. A longitudinal wave has the particles moving backwards and forwards in same direction the wave travels. This is the case in ordinary sound waves. You can see (or feel) this yourself when you look at the skin of a subwoofer making sounds (it is clearer when it is producing tones with a low pitch).
What kind of wave travels only through a medium?
Mechanical waves, including sound waves.
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