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1 The moon's gravitational pull on the water
2 The wind hitting the water
3 An underwater earthquake (Tsunami)
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How are sound waves unique?
Sound waves move away from the source of energy, but other sorts of waves move perpendicular (at a right angle) to the energy source
Energy that travels in waves in all directions from its source?
sound waves
What type of waves mkove energy forward but the source moves up and down?
transverse waves
What is the source of energy for waves?
The question asks for the source and may mean the energy source that generates the waves. Alternatively, the question may be asking how waves can be a source of energy. In the first case, energy goes into the wave and in the second case energy comes out of the wave. Briefly, waves are the regular repetition of an action, which may be vertical rise and fall of water as in water waves or compression and rarefaction of air as in sound waves or regular variations in electromagnetic fields as in light or radio waves. In all these cases, waves also move which is another characteristic. (To get technical, there are also standing waves but such waves may be taken to be two counter moving waves.) Physical waves are generated when the medium in which they exist is caused to move by some source of energy. A vibrating drum head makes a sound wave. The wind makes water waves. In the case of electromagnetic waves, the source of the fields, i.e. charges and currents, move in a regular way to generate the waves. The "source" of energy is the the energy that goes into moving the medium, e.g. the wind or mechanical motion of the drum membrane or the causative forces that move charges and currents in electromagnetic waves. In these cases, energy comes from the "source" to create the wave. To have a wave act as an energy "source", or to get energy out of a wave, you have to have the waving or oscillating material exerting a force on something else. Clearly, water waves may exert a buoyant force on a floating object, for instance, and that floating object as it moves up and down may exert a force and thereby do work and so act as an energy source. The same applies to sound, but the pressure waves are typically going to create movement over very small, perhaps micron scales, so mechanical work is less obvious. Perhaps more obvious would be sound causing an object to vibrate and that vibration being converted into heat energy. In the case of electromagnetic waves, the microwave oven actually heats objects by having the electromagnetic waves act on charges in atoms and molecules which then physically move and vibrate and that motion is heat. In summary, there are many kinds of waves and to create a wave there must be an energy source. The waves then contain that energy and the energy can be extracted from the wave thereby diminishing the wave.
If sound waves travel away from there source there what decreases?
There energy decreases
Are waves a source of energy?
waves is not a source of energy
What is the source of energy for a sound wave?
The source of energy for sound waves are vibrations.
What is a source of energy for a sound wave?
The source of energy for sound waves are vibrations.
How are sound waves unique?
Sound waves move away from the source of energy, but other sorts of waves move perpendicular (at a right angle) to the energy source
What is required as a source of waves?
energy
Energy that travels in waves in all directions from its source?
sound waves
What is the energy source in ocean waves?
wind
What is the energy source for sound waves?
That varies, depending on what causes the sound waves.
Tsunami waves are almost the same as ripples caused by throwing a rock into a pond. What is the major difference between the two?
The energy source of tsunami waves is much greater The energy source of Tsunami waves is much greater
What type of waves mkove energy forward but the source moves up and down?
transverse waves
What is the source of energy for waves?
The question asks for the source and may mean the energy source that generates the waves. Alternatively, the question may be asking how waves can be a source of energy. In the first case, energy goes into the wave and in the second case energy comes out of the wave. Briefly, waves are the regular repetition of an action, which may be vertical rise and fall of water as in water waves or compression and rarefaction of air as in sound waves or regular variations in electromagnetic fields as in light or radio waves. In all these cases, waves also move which is another characteristic. (To get technical, there are also standing waves but such waves may be taken to be two counter moving waves.) Physical waves are generated when the medium in which they exist is caused to move by some source of energy. A vibrating drum head makes a sound wave. The wind makes water waves. In the case of electromagnetic waves, the source of the fields, i.e. charges and currents, move in a regular way to generate the waves. The "source" of energy is the the energy that goes into moving the medium, e.g. the wind or mechanical motion of the drum membrane or the causative forces that move charges and currents in electromagnetic waves. In these cases, energy comes from the "source" to create the wave. To have a wave act as an energy "source", or to get energy out of a wave, you have to have the waving or oscillating material exerting a force on something else. Clearly, water waves may exert a buoyant force on a floating object, for instance, and that floating object as it moves up and down may exert a force and thereby do work and so act as an energy source. The same applies to sound, but the pressure waves are typically going to create movement over very small, perhaps micron scales, so mechanical work is less obvious. Perhaps more obvious would be sound causing an object to vibrate and that vibration being converted into heat energy. In the case of electromagnetic waves, the microwave oven actually heats objects by having the electromagnetic waves act on charges in atoms and molecules which then physically move and vibrate and that motion is heat. In summary, there are many kinds of waves and to create a wave there must be an energy source. The waves then contain that energy and the energy can be extracted from the wave thereby diminishing the wave.
How can energy transfer in a wave?
All waves can be thought of as mechanical waves, like sound waves. If there's an energy source at a point, the particles at that point will oscillate, meaning that they gain energy. These particles will bounce/collide with other particles in the surroundings, transferring this energy to them. In this way, the energy is carried away from the source and transferred somewhere else.
