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The matter transfers the energy, it does not move very far. It circles at approximately the same spot as the wave energy passes.

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That would be a transverse wave. Examples would be sound or a wave in water. Transverse waves need a medium to travel through.

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compressional wave

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Compressional

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compressional waves

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Compression wave

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Longitudinal waves.

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A longitudinal wave, aka a scalar wave.

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What is wave in which matter moves in the same direction as the wave?

Compression wave


What kind of wave moves in the same direction matter moves?

Such a wave is called a longitudinal wave.


What wave in which matter moves in the same direction as the waves?

Compression wave


When a transverse wave moves through matter the matter moves in the same direction as the wave true or galse?

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What kind of wave has matter that moves in the same direction as the wave travels?

Longitudinal wave.


What kind of wave is a wave in which the matter in the wave moves in the same direction as the wave?

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What wave does matter moves in same direction as the wave travels?

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What are waves in which matter in the medium moves in the same direction as the wave?

longitudinal waves.


What is a mechanical wave in which matter moves at a right angle to the wave direction?

Transverse wave.


What wave matter moves right angles to the direction wave travels?

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What is a longitundinal wave?

If the wave moves in the same direction as the force that produced it.


Is it true that matter in medium moves in perpendicular in transverse wave?

Yes. In a transverse wave the direction of particle movement is perpendicular to the direction of the wave.