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Q: What is any substance or region through which a wave is transmitted?
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Substance through which a wave is transmitted?

The substance through which a wave is transmitted is called the MEDIUM.Your very welcome.


What it called when a wave passes through a substance?

When a wave passes through a substance, it gets transmitted through it. The speed of the wave changes depending on the nature of the substance.


Can a wave move through a substance called a medium?

When a wave passes through a substance, it gets transmitted through it. The speed of the wave changes depending on the nature of the substance.


You can hear sounds transmitted through air water or steel but not through the empty vacuum of space. What type of wave carries sound?

A pressure wave in a substance- a Primary or P wave. A vacuum is an absence of substance- nothing there to compress.


Can wave energy only be transmiitted through a material medium?

That depends on the type of wave. An electromagnetic wave can be transmitted through a vacuum.


Which type of wave can be transmitted through the vacuum of space is what type of wave?

Electromagnetic I.e. light


Can amplitude be transmitted by wave?

Amplitude is a characteristic of a wave, so it is not actually transmitted transmitted by a wave.


Energy that is transmitted through the universe in a wave-like motion is known as?

electromagnetic energy


What is a periodic disturbance in a solid liquid or gas as energy is transmitted through a medium?

A wave.


What wave cannot travel through empty space?

Any wave that requires a physical medium. Audio (sound pressure) waves, water waves, and "amber waves of grain" are all examples of waves that cannot travel through the vacuum of space.


What is the name for any substance through which a wave can pass?

a medium.


Why can't a sound wave be a transverse wave?

Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal waves and transverse waves. (Taken from wikipedia)