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light travels as a transverse wave and it can travel without any medium as it does while travelling in space.
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In what type of wave do the particles of the medium move perpendicularly to the wave?
Tranverse wave
In this type of wave particles of the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction of the wave?
tranverse
WhAT IS A a sound wave that requires a meduim?
Longitudinal waves require a medium to propogate . Example are sound waves
In what type of waves do particles in the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction in which the waves are traveling?
transverse waves.
What are examples of tranverse waves?
Light wave and water waves
In what type of wave do the particles of the medium move perpendicularly to the wave?
Tranverse wave
In this type of wave particles of the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction of the wave?
tranverse
In this type of wave particles of the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction of the wave itself.?
tranverse
What is an example of a tranverse wave?
it is not a tranverse wave and an example is moclamo
WhAT IS A a sound wave that requires a meduim?
Longitudinal waves require a medium to propogate . Example are sound waves
Tranverse wave is a wave that moves perpendicular?
A transverse wave is a moving wave in which the displacement of the medium carrying the wave is perpendicular to the direction of the wave propogation. An example of a transverse wave is a string oscillating up and down.
When a longitudinal wave is combined with a tranverse wave the result is?
An earthquake.
Is a Mexican wave a transverse wave or compression wave?
It is a tranverse wave. hope this helps
In what type of waves do particles in the medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction in which the waves are traveling?
transverse waves.
Highest point of a tranverse wave?
Crest
Is light a mechanial wave or an electromagnetic wave A tranverse wave or a compressional wave?
electromagnetic, transverse
How does light speed back up after going through water?
Try not to imagine light as like a baseball that slows down as it hits a denser medium (like water), and then (seemingly impossibly) speeding up as it goes back to a less dense medium (like air). Light should instead be viewed as an electromagnetic wave, a wave that can be altered by the charged particles within a medium. How that EM wave is altered depends on the frequency with which the wave is vibrating and the nature of the charged particles in the medium. When you do the calculations rigorously, you find that water molecules will cause this wave to propogate less slowly. When it leaves the water into air, almost no charged particles exist to alter the speed of propogation of this wave -- it instead travels at the speed Maxwell said such an EM wave would propogate.
