The energy travels parallel to the direction of the wave
Sound waves are longitudinal.
Radio wave is not a longitudinal wave it is a transverse wave
Longitudinal Wave
A sound wave is indeed a longitudinal wave as opposed to a transverse wave
Sound, at least in gases like air, can only propagate as a longitudinal wave.
A wave must be transverse or longitudinal or both.
A longitudinal wave is a wave of which the disturbance direction is the same direction of the direction of the wave. Waves done in a spring and sound waves are an example. A longitudinal wave: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
If the particles of the medium vibrate in the direction of propagation of wave, as in sound waves that's why sound waves are called longitudinal waves.
Water waves are a special example of a combination of transverse and longitudinal oscillation. The individual particles in a water wave move with a circular motion, therefore they have both a vertical and horizontal component to their movement through the wave i.e up and down (Transverse) and side to side (Longitudinal) components.
No, a sound wave is a compressional wave.
When you have the complete compression and rarefaction of a longitudinal wave, that is one complete wave.
a wave in which matter is moved back and forth in the direction the wave is moving