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What happens when glaciers move?
Dont know actually so please give me the answer :)
A wave whose energy travels the same way as it was transferred?
Longitudinal wave
Does a medium travel with the mechanical wave or does the wave just travel through the medium?
No. (You can play loud music from speakers on one side of the room for as long as you want to, and you won't cause the air to pile up on the other side.)
How does sea-floor spreading provide a way for continents to move?
because if the sea-floor is moving it will probably will move a chunk of land that could be part of a continent the land at the bottom of the ocean is being spread across, and is taking space up. the continents are on tectonic plates, and need to go some where and move away.
What is a compressional wave?
Answer 1: A compressional wave is a wave that is close together and transverse waves are waves that are going the way the wave travels. Answer 2: Basically, it's a sound wave. A compressional wave is a wave that travels back and forth, moving with compression. Scince it is a mechanical wave it must use a medium to travel though. A sound wave is a good example of a compressional wave. A compressional wave is a wave that travels back and forth, moving with compression. Scince it is a mechanical wave it must use a medium to travel though. A sound wave is a good example of a compressional wave. ================================================================ its since, stupid.
what is the difference between longitudinal and surface waves?
Longitudinal wave particles move parallel to the way the wave is moving. Surface wave particles move in a circular motion.
How does the water in an ocean wave move?
Simple harmonic motion (up and down around a point of equilibrium). Water waves that crash onto a beach are not particles that come from way out in sea because water particles move up and down in one place (unless they have an outside and constant force applied to them). Water particles at the top of the ocean have both transversal and longitudinal motion.
How do waves travel?
there is several ways that waves can move. waves can move by wind. the energy passes to the water causing waves. The better answer. Waves move because they are a movement of energy through a medium. The wave entails two parts, which are the crest and trough. The wavelength is the distance between two crest. The wave height is the distance between a crest and trough.
What wave particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the wave?
Longitudinal... No, the particles move transverse to the wave direction. And that they are in 2 perpendicular surfaces, which are intersected in a line, and that line is the base line of the 2 direction waves.
How do boats cause a wave?
By the way it moves in the ocean & how the water interacts with the boat to help move it along. Also the motion it has on top of the waves
When a transverse wave travels through a medium which way does matter in the medium move?
When a compression wave travels through a medium, the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the wave. Compression waves are commonly called longitudinal waves.
ARE ocean waves transverse waves or longitudinal waves?
Ocean waves are transverse waves because they move up and down.
What way do solid particles move?
They vibrate.
When you listen to music do particles in air travel all the way from the stereo speaker to your ear?
No they do not. Sound moves in waves. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is rather hard to explain. In the diagram above the lines are closer together in some places than others, these areas move along from left to right as shown below | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you replace the lines with particles of air you can get a good idea of how sound waves move through the air. The air particles move for a bit when they get closer together but after the sound wave has passed they return to their original position, they don't move along with the wave.
What happens to temp when particles are spread out and move rapidly?
Particles spread out and move rapidly due to the increase in temperature. Movement of particles is dependent on temperature...not the other way around.
Why doesn't an object move forward as a wave passes under it?
The wave is not strong enough to move the object forward. It just passes along under the object and goes on its way.
What is one way that light differs from sound?
sound is a wave. while light has wave-particle duality. It acts like a wave but consisting of tiny packets (particles) called photons. hope this helps.
