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A transverse wave travels in a straight line but wavers up and down. the high point is the crest and the low point is the trough
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In a transverse wave that travels through a mediun the molecules of the medium vibrate?
Up to a crest, then down through a trough, then back. APEX :P
The medium vibrates perpendicular to the direction the wave travels in a?
Transverse Wave
A transverse wave cause its medium to move in what direction?
Perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.
What wave matter moves right angles to the direction wave travels?
Transverse
What is a wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels?
Wave that has vibration in a direction that is perpendicular to the motion creating it
What are waves that move the medium at RIGHT angles to the direction the wave travels?
transverse wave
What wave moves at right angles to its direction of travel?
Transverse wave.
What kind of wave has matter at right angles to direction wave travels?
That sounds like the description of a transverse wave.
Tranverse wave is a wave that moves perpendicular?
A transverse wave is a moving wave in which the displacement of the medium carrying the wave is perpendicular to the direction of the wave propogation. An example of a transverse wave is a string oscillating up and down.
What type of wave has movement that is parallel to the direction of the wave?
This is a longitudinal wave or a P-wave (primary wave), called so because it travels faster than a transverse wave, which moves at right angles to the direction the wave travels.
What is the wave motion in which particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave travels called?
Longitudinal wave. (as opposed to Transverse waves, where the vibrations are perpendicular to the direction of movement.)
When a transverse wave travels through a medium which way does matter in the medium move?
When a compression wave travels through a medium, the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the wave. Compression waves are commonly called longitudinal waves.
