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Q: What causes wave to bend when traveling from one to another?
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What cause a wave to bend when traveling from one medium to another?

Refraction- Your so very welcome:)


What cause a wave to bend when traveling to one medium to another?

Refraction- Your so very welcome:)


What causes a wave to bend and travel in new direction when it moves from one medium to another?

The speed of the wave in the different mediums.


What causes a wave to bend and travel in a new direction when it moves from one medium to another?

Waves may bend if they move from one medium to another.


When do waves bend traveling through a medium?

The bending of a wave occurs when the wave hits a object?


Why doesw light bend as it travels from water to aire?

light is a photon wave, the color of the light depends on the length of the wave; as traveling is concerned, the density of water is greater and thus causes a beam divergence greater than in gas.


What is a wave which causes the particles of the medium to move in the same direction that the wave is traveling?

It's called a longitudinal wave.


What is an s-wave involving earthquakes?

slowest,causes the ground to twist and bend.


Kind of wave that causes particles in rocks to move back and forth in the same direction that the wave is traveling?

Primary waves


When p wave bend while traveling through earth's core what happen when arrive at the shadow zone?

serveral minutes later than expected


Why refraction of a wave occurs when the wave travels from one material into another?

The change in wave speed causes refraction sinv1/v1 = sinv2/v2.


What describes the change in the wave as it encounters a barrier?

the wave will bend or defract