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Q: What is close together in a longitudinal wave?
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What is the part of the longitudinal wave where the particles are close together called?

Compression is the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are crowded together. Rarefaction is the part where the particles are spread apart.


What is the part of a longitudinal wave called when its close together?

It is called a compression.


Is a sound wave a transverse wave or longitudinal wave?

Sound waves are longitudinal.


What do you call a pulse in a longitudinal wave?

If by pulse you mean where the wave is bunched together then it is called a compression.


Is a radio wave longitudinal?

Radio wave is not a longitudinal wave it is a transverse wave


What type of wave does sound travel in?

Longitudinal Wave


Is longitudinal a sound wave?

A sound wave is indeed a longitudinal wave as opposed to a transverse wave


What is a longitudinal wave and what is nessasery for a wave?

A longitudinal wave is a wave of which the disturbance direction is the same direction of the direction of the wave. Waves done in a spring and sound waves are an example. A longitudinal wave: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |


When particles or waves are clustered together in a longitudinal wave what are they called?

compression


Is ultrasound a transverse or longitudinal wave?

Sound, at least in gases like air, can only propagate as a longitudinal wave.


Must a wave be transverse or longitudinal explain?

A wave must be transverse or longitudinal or both.


Why sound waves are longitudinal waves?

If the particles of the medium vibrate in the direction of propagation of wave, as in sound waves that's why sound waves are called longitudinal waves.