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What is a wave called when the particles vibrate back and forth?
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∙ 13y ago
Either a Longitudinal or Compressional Wave.
Looks like: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i.e. Slinky
The gaps are rarefactions.
The one's closer together are compressions.
Rarefaction is the reduction of a medium's density, or the opposite of compression.
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Wave motion in which particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave is called?
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What are waves in which the particles vibrate back and forth along the path that the wave travels called?
Compression waves (as opposed to transverse waves).
What does to vibrate mean?
To move quickly back and forth.
How is sound produced and how do they travel?
Sound is produced due to vibration. Sound needs medium such as air to travel. When an object vibrates, it sets neighbouring particles of medium to vibrate. These particles oscillate back and forth and reach our ears.
The particles in a surface water wave move back-and-forth only?
the particles in a surface water move back- and- forth only.
What particles move back and forth?
All particles vibrate in some manner.
Wave motion in which particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave is called?
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What are waves in which the particles vibrate back and forth along the path that the wave travels called?
Compression waves (as opposed to transverse waves).
What are longitudenal waves?
They are Waves that vibrate particles back and forth like this :::::: : : : : : : ::::::: : : : : :::::::: : : : : :::::::: : : : : ::::::: The ones close together are called compression the ones further apart are called rarefaction.
Wave motion in which particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave travels?
a compressional wave
Wave in which particles in the medium vibrate back and forth along the path that the wave travels?
Longitudinal Wave
These waves cause back and forth motion?
The type of seismic waves that cause back and forth motions are P waves. P waves cause particles in material to vibrate back and forth.
In solids particles move back and fourth but do not change?
The position of the particles in a solid do not change. However they are said to move back and forth or vibrate in their same position.
Why do compressions and rarefactions occur alternatively?
because the particles vibrate back and forth due to which compression and rarefactions are made
What is a type of wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth alont the path that the wave travles?
traverse wave
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.)
What is a wave in which particles in the medium vibrate back and forth along the path a wave travels?
A longitudinal wave, like sound.
