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Water waves are transverse waves this means that the motion of the particles travels perpendicularly to the direction of the wave travel
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The intensity of light waves is a measure of what?
The intensity of light waves is a measure of the energy that is carried by the waves. Light waves are electromagnetic waves.
What type of energy is light from the sun?
The energy carried by electromagnetic waves.
What happens to the energy carried by electromagnetic waves as the wavelength gets shorter?
energy
How waves propagate in vacuum?
Only electromagnetical waves propagate in vacuum, and those aren't waves in the sense most people think of waves, like ocean waves or sound waves. The term "electromagnetical waves" is in some sense a misnomer, a relic from a time when physicists believed that the information carried by the electromagnetical field was transmitted by waves in a medium called "the ether". We now know that this information is carried instead by small bundles of energy, or particles, called photons.
Is energy carried on mechanical and electromagnetic waves?
Mechanical waves: These are waves which require a medium to travel through, i.e. sound (requires air molecules in the air). This type of wave transmits energy through the air molecules, however the medium itself does not move, hence in mechanical waves ENERGY IS CARRIED. Electromagnetic waves: These are waves which propagate electric and magnetic fields at 90 degrees (perpendicular) to one another, for example radio waves and light rays. Hence these waves DO TRANSMIT/CARRY ENERGY, despite the paradox of them being massless (photons have no apparent weight)
How messages are carried by radio waves?
by the sound waves
What form of waves is light carried by?
Light is not carried by waves, it IS as wave an "electromagnetic" wave. Interestingly, it is also a particle, a "photon".
The intensity of light waves is a measure of what?
The intensity of light waves is a measure of the energy that is carried by the waves. Light waves are electromagnetic waves.
What is carried by both sound waves and light waves?
Energy. Also, information.
What type of communication is carried by sound and light waves?
The type of communication that is carried by sound and light waves are messages. They can be sent via a video message.
Are sounds carried by waves?
Sound waves (Vibrations) are carried by a medium (matter). This can be either a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma. *******Contributed by Czar Acumen***********************
What is littoral drift?
Is the sediment carried by the waves and the currents
Name for tiny organisms that are carried by the waves?
Plankton?
How can energy be carried from one place to another by heat flow and by waves?
heat flow and waves
How is energy from an earthquake carried to places from its source?
well the waves carried through out places vibrates the earth
What is being carried by sound waves?
Sound waves are carried throw the air. But sound waves can also travel throw liquids, such as water, and even through solids.
What is attriction?
when material is carried by the waves and hit the rocks :D
