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Are waves on a rope and light waves are two examples of longitudinal waves?
No, neither are examples of longitudinal waves. Sound waves and compression waves in a spring are longitudinal waves. With light and rope waves, the axis of movement is 90 degrees to the direction of propagation, they are both transverse waves.
What waves can you produce in a rope by snapping it up and down?
Transverse waves are the waves produced by moving a rope up and down. These are the types of waves seen in the ocean and in electromagnetic radiation (EM has two sets of waves perpendicular to one another and 90 degrees out of phase, for the electric and magnetic fields). Longitudinal waves are different...they are compression waves seen in sound.
What is it when two waves that meet and make bigger or smaller waves?
This is called interference. Positive interference makes bigger waves, Negative interference makes smaller waves.
The two types of regions that make up compressional waves are?
compressions and rarefractions
How do you measure the compression of a longitudinal wave?
It is the distance between two points of maximum compression (or minimum compression).
What are the 2 main type of waves?
Waves in Air give a great example: they occur in two types - compression [compressed Air] and rarefaction [expanded or decompressed Air] Waves.
Are waves on a rope and light waves are two examples of longitudinal waves?
No, neither are examples of longitudinal waves. Sound waves and compression waves in a spring are longitudinal waves. With light and rope waves, the axis of movement is 90 degrees to the direction of propagation, they are both transverse waves.
What do two sound waves make?
Two sound waves may make an interference pattern.
What waves can you produce in a rope by snapping it up and down?
Transverse waves are the waves produced by moving a rope up and down. These are the types of waves seen in the ocean and in electromagnetic radiation (EM has two sets of waves perpendicular to one another and 90 degrees out of phase, for the electric and magnetic fields). Longitudinal waves are different...they are compression waves seen in sound.
What two motions are needed to make a wave?
There are two basic forms of wave motion, for mechanical waves. These are longitudinal and transverse waves.
What two actions do muscles make?
Contract and Relax
What waves are produced by earthquakes?
Earthquakes produce "seismic" waves. These can be split into two main types: Body Waves and Surface Waves. Body waves consist of P-waves (compression or longitudinal waves) and S-waves (shear or transverse waves). P-waves can go through solid, liquid, and gas forms but S waves can only travel through solids. The P waves reach seismic stations quicker than S waves as they travel at a greater speed. Surface waves travel more slowly than Body waves and there are two main types: The Rayleigh and Love wave.
How are P-waves and S-waves related to earthquakes?
They are the names given to the two types of seismic body waves released when an earthquake occurs. P-waves are known as primary waves as they have the highest verlocity of any seismic waves and so are the first to be recorded by a seismometer and they are longitudinal or compression waves. S-waves are known as secondary waves having a lower velocity than the P-wave and so arriving at a seismometer station after the P-waves. S-waves are transverse or shear waves.
What is it when two waves that meet and make bigger or smaller waves?
This is called interference. Positive interference makes bigger waves, Negative interference makes smaller waves.
What are the kinds of waving?
There are two basic types of waves : transverse and longitudinal. Transverse waves are like a wavy line. They consist of a single pulse of energy moving in a curved and wavy way. Light waves are transverse. Longitudinal waves consist of rarefactions and compressions. In a rarefaction, the particles are very sparse. In a compression, the particles are very dense. Sound waves are longitudinal.
Is a light waves longitudinal?
No, light is not a longitudinal wave. It's actual geometric structure is two perpendicular waves of force fields, one electric and one magnetic (hence, electro-magnetic) which vary in a sine wave form as they propagate in a direction perpendicular to the two directions of the sine waves. This is much more complicated than the compression waves associated with sound, or the waves of water on the ocean surface.
What two waves combine to make a wave with a larger amplitude?
syncronized
