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Most waves all require something with mass to be transmitted. However, electromagnetic waves carry energy in the form of photons, which are massless. Since photons are massless, they are not considered matter, but they do indeed carry energy. (This is why something feels warmer when the sun shines on it.) Electromagnetic waves range anywhere from radio waves, microwaves, and the common visible light waves, to x rays, and gamma rays.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoWave that does not require matter to carry energy is called as electromagnetic wave. In this wave, electrical and magnetic energy is transformed from one point to the other in free space. This establishes that the free space is having qualities such as electric permittivity and magnetic permeability.
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Waves with the greater amplitudes carry MORE OR LESS energy than waves with smaller amplitudes?
Wave with higher amplitude carry more energy than wave with lower amplitude. For simple consideration, no amplitude is no wave and thus no energy but just a flat surface of water. Wave with amplitude must have higher energy than the no wave.
A type of energy that travels as a wave but does not require a medium through which to travel?
Light energy.
How is it possible for a sound wave to transmit energy but not matter?
Sound wave's transmit energy and not matter because sound travels from particle to particle transferring only energy. That is why when sound travels only the energy travels and the particles just collide with each other but stay in their positions.
If wave amplitudes are equal will high-frequency waves carry more or less energy than low-frequency waves?
if wave amplitudes are equal ,will high frequency waves carry more or less energy than low frequency waves
What waves carry more energy than other waves if the amplitudes of waves are equal?
In general, higher frequency waves carry more energy than waves of lower frequency if their amplitudes are equal. This is absolutely true of electromagnetic waves, and can probably be most easily demonstrated there.
Do wave carry matter and energy?
it is energy
What a wave does carry?
When a wave propgates it carries energy.......
What do waves carry from place to place?
No, they do not. A wave transfers energy but the matter does not move forward with the wave.
What is a disturbance moving through a liquid solid or gas?
It may be called a "wave." Waves are a type of vibration that carry energy from molecule to molecule through matter. A "wave" can also be electromagnetic energy, which does not require matter to propagate.
What does wave carries?
Waves carry energy (frequencies), not matter.
Are rhythmic disturbances that carry energy through space and matter?
wave
A type of wave that can carry energy without matter?
Electromagnetic waves.
Does a transverse wave carry matter or energy or both?
I don't ow
A wave that doesn't require matter to transfer energy?
Electromagnetic waves
Does an electromagnetic wave use matter to transfer energy?
No, an electromagnetic wave does not require matter (a medium) to transfer energy. Electromagnetic energy (like light or radio waves) travels perfectly well in the vacuum of space. In contrast, a mechanical wave, of which sound is an example, does require a medium through which to travel.
What is true for both transverse and longitudinal wave?
Both Carry Energy, Both are Mechanical waves, Both carry Matter
Electromagnetic waves dont carry any matter what do they carry?
Electromagnetic waves carry energy and information. Energy is transferred through the oscillation of electric and magnetic fields, while information can be encoded in the frequency, amplitude, and phase of the wave.
