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What is the change in direction of waves when the waves travel from air to glass?
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The waves are refracted towards the normal (ie towards the line perpendicular to the surface).
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How do you know waves transfer energy in the direction of the travel of wave?
seismic waves travel in all directions. the reason we know is because of earthquakes.
What are three ways waves change direction?
Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction
How do p waves travel?
Every direction radiating from the source. However when they enter air they cannot proceed further and when they enter liquids (e.g. water, the molten nickel-iron outer core) only the p-waves can proceed further. The direction of travel also changes over distance from the source due to refraction and/or reflection.
What type of waves move through earth by causing particles of rocks to move at right angles to the direction of the waves?
A secondary wave causes rocks to vibrate at 90 degrees. This earthquake wave can travel through solids but not through liquids, and causes rock particles to vibrate at right angles to the direction of wave travel.
What are the example of longitudinal waves?
Longitudinal waves are waves that have vibrations along or parallel to their direction of travel. Examples of longitudinal waves are sound waves, waves in a slink, tsunami waves, vibrations in gases, oscillations in springs, internal-water waves, ultra sounds, earthquake P-waves.
What change speed and direction depending on the density and materiel they travel through?
Waves.
What cause earthquake waves to change direction as they travel through Earth?
by their boundaries
What type of waves move across the direction of travel?
Transverse waves will move across the direction of travel.
The change in direction of waves when the wave travels from air to glass is what?
The waves are refracted towards the normal (ie towards the line perpendicular to the surface).
Why do waves change direction when they travel between one material and another?
Because they are changing mediums.
Waves that compress and expand in the direction that the waves travel?
Longitudinal waves.
What is the difference between longitual waves and transverse waves?
longitudinal waves travel in the direction parallel to the Surface, which are P waves, and transverse waves travel in the direction perpendicular to the surface, which causes destructive earthquakes. Which are S waves.
How does longitudinal wave travel?
Longitudinal waves are waves that have the same direction of vibration along their direction of travel, which means that the vibration of the medium (particle) is in the same direction or opposite direction as the motion of the wave. Mechanical longitudinal waves have been also referred to as compressional waves or compression waves
What matter vibrates in the same direction as these waves travel?
Compressional waves
Matter vibrates in the same direction as these waves travel?
Longitudinal waves.
Which seismic waves compress and expand rock in the direction the waves travel?
P Waves
What are longitudeinal waves?
Longitudinal waves are waves that have the same direction of oscillations or vibrations along or parallel to their direction of travel, which means that the oscillations of the medium (particle) is in the same direction or opposite direction as the motion of the wave.
