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When a person throws a stone into water why are circular waves formed rather than transverse waves?
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When a stone is thrown into quiet water, the circular waves that are formed are transverse waves. We say the waves are circular because the shape of the wave front is circular and we say it is transverse because the surface disturbance is vertical, perpendicular plane of the surface in which the wave moves.
The waves have both properties of being circular and transverse.
More Explanation:
Transverse waves are waves where the direction of the oscillatory motion is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the wave.
The waves on the surface of water are a vertical motion of the water.
The waves on the surface move on the surface, which is horizontal, so the propagation is in the horizontal direction.
Horizontal is perpendicular to vertical, so circular water waves as well as linear water waves are transverse. Indeed, no matter what peculiar shape you produce, the water disturbance is vertical and the motion of propagation is restricted to the horizontal surface.
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