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Q: What substance which a wave move through is called?
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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.


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.


Substance through which a wave is transmitted?

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


A substance that a wave travels through is called a?

The material through which a wave travels is called a medium.


What type of wave has points called nodes that do not move?

A Standing Wave is a wave with nodes that do not move.


What is the difference between a compressional wave and a shear wave?

shear waves: move side to side, only move through solids, are also called secondary waves, are slower than compressional waves, travel perpendicular to the medium compressional waves: move straight in one direction, can move through solid, liquid and gas, are also called primary waves, are faster, travel parallel to the medium


Which type of wave can move through space?

the sperm wave of doom


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

a medium.


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.


Which term is defined as any substance through which wave energy?

medium


What wave energy causes matter in the medium to move up and down or back an forth at right angles to the wave?

The answer to your question is a longitudinal wave. The motion of the wave is parallel to the direction of the particles. An example is a sound wave.When particles move perpendicular to the direction of the wave, the wave is called a transverse wave. An example is a water wave.


Parts of water that don't move along with a wave?

Water does not move with a wave believe it or not. It moves up and down with the wave but a wave is just energy moving through something.