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What is the direction of electromagnetic waves?
Electromagnetic waves travel in a straight line and in all directions away from their source.
Can sound waves move in a straight line?
Yes, sound waves can move in a straight line. When sound waves propagate through a uniform medium, they usually travel in a straight line until they encounter an obstacle or medium that causes them to reflect, refract, or diffract.
What direction does electromagnetic waves travel?
Electromagnetic waves travel in a transverse direction, which means they propagate perpendicular to the oscillating electric and magnetic fields. This allows them to travel through space at the speed of light in a straight line.
How does a laser travel in a straight line?
Many think a laser travels in a straight line due to it being made of particles since particles travel in a straight line when not acted upon by a force. This is not why a laser is straight. A laser is actually a wave and waves are able to travel around corners. If you notice, ocean waves actually seem to bend around corners. Sound waves do the same thing so that you can hear someone in another room. Light waves can do the same thing. The reason they don't is because they are much smaller than the opening they pass through. Ocean and sound waves have a much longer wavelength than light does. If ocean waves passed into a harbor they would also travel in a straight line. When the wavelength is much smaller than the opening they pass through the interferance created by the corners of the opening, destroying all the waves that are not moving in the direction of the waves before they passed through the opening. Therefore, it is wave interference that causes it to be so straight.
How do you differentiate light waves from sound waves?
Light waves are electromagnetic waves that can travel through a vacuum and do not require a medium to propagate, whereas sound waves are mechanical vibrations that need a medium, such as air or water, to travel. Light waves travel at the speed of light in a straight line, while sound waves travel through a medium by causing particles to vibrate in a wave pattern.
Do sound waves travel in a straight line?
no
What is the direction of electromagnetic waves?
Electromagnetic waves travel in a straight line and in all directions away from their source.
Can sound waves move in a straight line?
Yes, sound waves can move in a straight line. When sound waves propagate through a uniform medium, they usually travel in a straight line until they encounter an obstacle or medium that causes them to reflect, refract, or diffract.
Why doesn't light travel as straight or far in water as in air?
There are more things for the light waves to bounce off of in water, so light can not travel in a straight line or as far.
Do high pitched sounds travel in a straight line?
High pitched sounds, like all other sounds, travel in all directions in waves from their source. The direction they travel in can be affected by obstacles, reflections, and other factors, but they do not travel in a perfectly straight line.
Do earthquake P-waves travel in straight lines?
Earthquake P-waves don't travel in straight lines, they travel in like a circle after the earthquake has struck. These P-waves arrive first during an earthquake.
What direction does electromagnetic waves travel?
Electromagnetic waves travel in a transverse direction, which means they propagate perpendicular to the oscillating electric and magnetic fields. This allows them to travel through space at the speed of light in a straight line.
How does a laser travel in a straight line?
Many think a laser travels in a straight line due to it being made of particles since particles travel in a straight line when not acted upon by a force. This is not why a laser is straight. A laser is actually a wave and waves are able to travel around corners. If you notice, ocean waves actually seem to bend around corners. Sound waves do the same thing so that you can hear someone in another room. Light waves can do the same thing. The reason they don't is because they are much smaller than the opening they pass through. Ocean and sound waves have a much longer wavelength than light does. If ocean waves passed into a harbor they would also travel in a straight line. When the wavelength is much smaller than the opening they pass through the interferance created by the corners of the opening, destroying all the waves that are not moving in the direction of the waves before they passed through the opening. Therefore, it is wave interference that causes it to be so straight.
How do you differentiate light waves from sound waves?
Light waves are electromagnetic waves that can travel through a vacuum and do not require a medium to propagate, whereas sound waves are mechanical vibrations that need a medium, such as air or water, to travel. Light waves travel at the speed of light in a straight line, while sound waves travel through a medium by causing particles to vibrate in a wave pattern.
Why do light waves travel faster in empty air than in matter?
I believe it might be because the light has nothing to reflect off of so it would travel in a straight line
Does color travel in waves?
No it doesn't. Sound travels in waves, but light tavels in straight lines.
Why do L- wave form a straight line?
L-waves, or Love waves, form a straight line due to their nature of being surface waves that travel along the Earth's crust. They are characterized by horizontal shear motion, which causes particles to move side-to-side in a horizontal plane, resulting in a linear propagation of energy along the surface. This straight-line movement is influenced by the wave's interaction with the Earth's layered structure, allowing it to maintain a consistent path.
