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The particles in a transverse wave are displaced perpendicularly to the direction of the wave motion.
For example, water waves are transverse waves. Think of how in the sea, the wave is moving towards the shore, but the water goes up and down.
The water molecules are being displaced vertically, but the wave itself is moving horizontally. This is the characteristic motion of a transverse wave.
Transverse waves are also able to move through a vacuum. Light, for example, is a transverse wave, and it can move through space, which is a vacuum.
(A longitudinal wave, on the other hand, has particles which move in the same direction as the wave, and cannot travel through a vacuum. For example, sound waves.)
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Transverse. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves, which are transverse.
Instances in the home where traverse waves are used?
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In what type of waves do particles in the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction in which the waves are traveling?
transverse waves.
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Are heat waves transverse or longitudinal?
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What kind of waves are electromagnet waves?
They are transverse waves.
Instances in the home where traverse waves are used?
If you mean "transverse" waves, then any electromagnetic wave is transverse- Examples--light and microwaves
Are electromagnetic waves transverse or compressional waves?
They are transverse waves.
Are shock waves transverse waves or longitudinal waves?
these
In what type of waves do particles in the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction in which the waves are traveling?
transverse waves.
What types of waves are light waves?
it is a transverse wave (:
What is a sentence for transverse waves?
Transverse waves are funny.
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X- rays are transverse waves!x rays are electromagnetic waves and transverse .
Is an infrared wave a transverse wave?
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