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Are soundwaves longitudinal waves?
longitudinal wave
Sound waves are transverse waves?
Nope, longitudinal.
What causes sound waves?
intensity
What waves travel faster sound or light?
Light waves travel faster than sound waves.
Are radio waves a form of sound or light?
When you listen to the radio, you are hearing sound, which has no resemblance to light, radio waves, or x-rays. However, the sounds you hear are created in the radio receiver, using information that was carried to your location by means of radio waves.
Are sound waves longitudinal in solids?
No Sound waves are longitudinal. Being longitudinal they cannot be POLARISED.
Are surface waves compression waves?
No. surface waves on the surface of water is transverse in nature. It has crests and troughs. Compression and rarefaction will be in longitudinal wave. example sound waves.
Are soundwaves longitudinal waves?
longitudinal wave
What kind of waves are not transverse waves?
Waves are often classified as transverse or longitudinal. The sideways vibrations of a string and the surface waves on water are a good examples of transverse waves. Sound waves in fluids (e.g. sound in air, sound traveling under water) are examples of longitudinal waves. In solids, you can have both transverse and longitudinal waves.
Why sound waves are longitudinal waves?
If the particles of the medium vibrate in the direction of propagation of wave, as in sound waves that's why sound waves are called longitudinal waves.
Are sound waves transverse waves while light waves are longitudinal waves or are all sound waves and light waves longitudinal waves?
Sound waves are longitudinal waves, where the particles of the medium vibrate parallel to the direction of the wave. Light waves, on the other hand, are transverse waves, where the oscillation is perpendicular to the direction of wave travel.
Are the sound waves that travel to the ear for hearing transverse or longitudinal?
Sound waves that travel to the ear for hearing are longitudinal waves.
Is a sound wave a transverse wave or longitudinal wave?
Sound waves are longitudinal.
In what waves do sound travel?
Sound travels in longitudinal waves.
Are sound waves in air transverse or longitudinal?
Sound waves in air are longitudinal waves, meaning that the particles of the medium vibrate parallel to the direction of wave propagation.
How are longitudinal waves used in communication?
All sound waves are longitudinal (compression/rarefaction) waves.
Are light waves longitudinal?
No, light waves are not longitudinal waves. Light is an example of a transverse wave, like a wave moving across the surface of water. Sound or seismic waves are examples of longitudinal waves.
