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What is a characteristics of a mechanical wave?
They need a medium to propagate through.
How sound waves differ from light waves?
Sound is a longitudinal wave and a light wave is a transverse wave. Sound requires a medium to travel through but light can propagate without any medium.
What do mechanical waves need to propagate?
Mechanical waves badly need a material medium to get propagated. For example sound waves need air, water or solid medium to pass through. But light though it is a wave, it could pass through even through vacuum. Hence it is not a mechanical wave. But it is proved to be an electromagnetic wave. Present science has accepted even free space ie vacuum to be a medium but it is non-material medium.
Do X-ray waves need a medium?
No. X-rays are a form of electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves self-propagate by generating their own electrical and magnetic fields.
Why did you say the sound depend ion the medium through which the sound travel?
Since sound waves need some medium to propagate or multiply through it follows that the nature or density of the medium would directly or indirectly affect the nature of the wave.
What is characteristics of a wave?
They need a medium to propagate through.
What is a characteristics of a mechanical wave?
They need a medium to propagate through.
Medium for the wave?
The medium of any wave is the material that the wave energy travels through; in this case water.
What medium is disturbed when a light wave is emitted from a flashlight or a candle?
None. Electromagnetic wave do not need a medium to propagate through.
What is meant by the medium of a wave?
Waves need a medium to propagate themselves through. The waves generated on a pond by a falling droplet need a medium, in this case its the very water of the pond. Sound waves can propagate both though a water medium or an air medium for example. Electromagnetic waves are an exception in that they do not need a medium to propagate through (the can propagate through the void of interstellar space).
What is the medium of wave propagation?
The "medium" for a wave is whatever the wave goes through - or more precisely, whatever it needs, in order to propagate. In this case, the Earth.
Do sound require a medium?
Sound waves need a medium to propagate. Light-waves and other electromagnetic wave (radio, xray) do not.
What is the medium propagation of earhquake waves?
The Earth itself is.
What type of wave happens in a medium?
The waves that propagate through particles of a medium are mechanical waves (aka waves of vibration).
How sound waves differ from light waves?
Sound is a longitudinal wave and a light wave is a transverse wave. Sound requires a medium to travel through but light can propagate without any medium.
Why is sound not able to travel in a vacuum?
Sound being a longitudinal mechanical wave needs a medium to propagate. In a vacuum (like the outer space), there is no matter to act as the medium and thus sound waves can not propagate.
Is Sound is able to travel in a vacuum?
Sound being a longitudinal mechanical wave needs a medium to propagate. In a vacuum (like the outer space), there is no matter to act as the medium and thus sound waves can not propagate.
