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What Type of seismic wave that travels the fastest through rock material by causing rocks to vibrate in the same directions as the waves?
secondary waves
How do scientists classify seismic waves?
The wave are classified as their motion respect to their propagation.
Wave that moves rock particles in a backward rolling motion and a side-to-side swaying motion?
These are called Surface waves
What is another name for surface waves?
another name for pressure wave is a P-wave EDIT: Another name for P-waves or Pressure waves are Compressional, Longitudinal, P, Dilation waves. The particle motion is in the direction of wave propagation These waves occur in Solids, Liquids, and Gases whereas Shear, transverse, S, or equivoluminal waves only occur in solids.
A surface wave's motion is most like?
Surface waves travel more slowly than body waves (P and S); and of the two surface.
Is a transverse wave an example of an longitudinal wave?
No, they are different types of wave. Transverse waves vibrate across the direction of motion, like the waves you get when you shake a rope. Longitudinal waves vibrate back and forth along the direction of motion like a sound wave.
Which waves causes the medium to vibrate only in a directions parallel to the wave motion?
Longitudal waves
What is wave in which particles in the medium vibrate in an up an and down motion?
transverse waves
Do p waves vibrate at 90 percent to the wave motion?
They travel the fastest through rocks.
do particles vibrate in the direction of wave motion in transverse waves?
In a transverse wave the particle displacement is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation (at right angles). In a longitudinal wave the particle displacement is parallel to the direction of wave propagation.
What is the wave motion in which particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave travels called?
Longitudinal wave. (as opposed to Transverse waves, where the vibrations are perpendicular to the direction of movement.)
For each type of wave compare the vibration of the medium to the direction of the wave?
Transverse waves vibrate up and down. Longitudinal waves vibrate parallel to the medium. Surface waves vibrate in circular motions.
For which type of wave does the medium vibrate perpendicular to the motion of the wave?
transverse
A wave in which the motion of the material is perpendicular to the motion of the wave is?
Transverse waves . Eg , sea waves .
How does this motion relate to wave motion?
because motion is moving and wave motion has waves
Which wave causes the medium to vibrate only in a direction parallel to the wave's motion?
Longitudinal wave
Wave in which particles of the medium vibrate in up and down motion?
A transverse wave is when the direction of oscillation is perpendicular to the direction of vibration of the source.
