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A sound wave is logitudinal because the motion of the medium (air) travels in the same direction as the wave (back and forth).
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What are the characteristics of sound waves?
The characteristics of a sound wave is the Amplitude, Frequency, Wavelength, time period, and velocity. The sound wave itself is a longitudinal wave that shows the rarefactions and compressions of a sound wave.
What gives a sound wave its pitch and intensity?
A sound wave's pitch is determined by its frequency; that is its cycles per unit of time. The sound wave's intensity or volume is determined by its amplitude; the maximum crest of a sound wave.
What if the molecules from a sound wave are compressed?
Nothing. That IS how a sound wave is propagated.
Is a sound wave continuous?
A sound wave is continuous for as long as the sound vibrations are being made at its source.
A type of wave that travels only in matter?
the only wave type that can travel through matter is sound. sound waves cause vibrations in the material, which means that the waves move faster the closer the atoms in the component are to each other. for example, water is denser then air, so sound will travel through the water faster than the air.
What type of sound wave does a dog have?
Every type of sound wave produced is a longitudinal wave.
What type of wave is sound wave?
A sound wave is considered a sinusoidal wave.
What type of s mechanical wave is a sound wave?
sound wave is a longitudinal wave
Is sound a type of electromagnetic wave?
No. Sound is a mechanical wave, not an EM wave.
What type of wave is a flute wave?
sound
What type of wave is voice?
sound wave, and a longitudinal
What is A type of wave you don't surf?
A sound wave.
What type of wave does sound travel in?
Longitudinal Wave
What is the name of the mechanical wave that sound propagates with?
Sound propagates through a longitudinal wave, a type of mechanical wave.
What kind of wave in which amplitude changes to create sound?
The type of wave in which amplitude changes to create sound is a sound wave. Amplitude is the measure of the changes within the wave.
What type of wave is an echo an example of?
I am guessing a sound wave.
A type of mechanical wave motion in an elastic medium is?
Type your answer here... sound
