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If you mean sound waves, the only type of sound waves that can travel through air (or any gas, for that matter) is longitudinal waves.
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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.
What is A wave that is a combination of longitude and transverse wave?
The combination of a transverse waves and a longitudinal waves produce surface waves. The waves found in water are a good example. When a wave moves through the waver, particles travel in clockwise circles, and the radius of the circles decreases as the depth into the water increases.
Which type of wave has a trough and crest?
what is a wave with a low, smooth crest called? what is a wave with a low, smooth crest called?
The crest of a transverse wave similar to what on a longitudinal wave?
compression
Tranverse wave is a wave that moves perpendicular?
A transverse wave is a moving wave in which the displacement of the medium carrying the wave is perpendicular to the direction of the wave propogation. An example of a transverse wave is a string oscillating up and down.
In what type of waves do particles in the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction in which the waves are traveling?
transverse waves.
What type of wave has rarefractions?
transverse wave
What type of wave is in the American flag?
transverse wave
The easiest type of wave to visualize is a?
ocean wave or transverse wave
What media does a transverse wave travel through?
It depends on the type of transverse wave. A transverse water wave travels through water. A transverse wave on a rope travels along the rope. A transverse electromagnetic wave, however, needs no medium. It can propagate through a vacuum.
What source of energy cause a transverse wave?
A transverse wave is a wave in which the medium vibrates at right angles to the direction of its propagation.There is no one unique source of energy that will produce a wave with this property.
When particles of wave move at right angle what type of wave is it?
Transverse wave
Which type of wave has both transverse and longitudinal characteristics?
Earthquake wave.
What type of wave do you create when you throw a stone into a lake?
Transverse Wave
For which type of wave does the medium vibrate perpendicular to the motion of the wave?
transverse
Which type of wave causes the medium to vibrate perpendicular to the direction of the wave?
Transverse Wave.
Which is a type of mechanical wave?
Longitudinal and transverse are both
