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Sound waves are compression waves; regions of higher density alternating with regions of lower density.
If you plot density vs. position (or vs time at a particular position, either way works) you do get out the familiar wave form with crests and troughs.
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Are compressions and rarefactions characteristics of transverse waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
What is troughs wave?
A trough wave is the lowest part between two crest waves.
Where two waves interfere the displacment where two troughs meet is?
When two waves interfere, the displacement where two troughs meet is negative.
What does sound waves mean?
Sound moves by vibration. It is conducted by the vibration of matter. That vibration oscillates up and down in crests and troughs (hi's and low's). The distance or "wave length" between one crest and the next is a sound wave.
When two waves interfere the displacement where two troughs meet is positive negative zero or a crest?
Negative
Are compressions and rarefactions characteristics of transverse waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs. Longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
What is troughs?
A trough wave is the lowest part between two crest waves.
What is troughs wave?
A trough wave is the lowest part between two crest waves.
Where two waves interfere the displacment where two troughs meet is?
When two waves interfere, the displacement where two troughs meet is negative.
What does sound waves mean?
Sound moves by vibration. It is conducted by the vibration of matter. That vibration oscillates up and down in crests and troughs (hi's and low's). The distance or "wave length" between one crest and the next is a sound wave.
When two waves interfere the displacement where two troughs meet is positive negative zero or a crest?
Negative
In what ways are sound waves like ocean waves?
Sound waves are like ocean waves because it resembles an ocean wave with crests (peak) and troughs (valleys). The crests indicate regions of high pressure and the troughs, low pressure.
Are sound waves made up of series of crests and troughs?
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What are the five main parts of sound and light waves?
Waves have a repeating series of crests and troughs. The crests are where a wave's amplitude is at its maximum. Between every two successive crests is a trough, where the wave's amplitude is at its minimum. The distance between two successive crests (or troughs) is the wavelength. The measure of how frequently new crests are formed is the frequency. The speed of a wave is the product of its wavelength and its frequency.
Are sound waves characterized by crest and troughs?
They can be. In air and other fluids sound is transmitted by variations in pressure. When those variations impinge on the eardrums (in our ears) they make them vibrate. If we were able to monitor the horizontal position of a point on one eardrum through time (assuming that the person in possession of the eardrum was standing) then we would see a complicated wave form with crests and troughs.
Are ocean waves and sound waves different?
ocean waves have to do with water and sound waves have to do with sound
When two waves of the same wavelengths travel such that their crests and also troughs are?
If you have one single sound, it will make a certain type of frequency. Now if the apex of the crest is the exact opposite of the apex of the trough. That single sound will cancel each other out. If you have one single sound, the apex of the crest is exactly the same as the apex of the second sound (at the same frequency) the overall sound will increase.
