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Why does the amplitude of a progressive wave get smaller as the wave travels?
The amplitude of a progressive wave decreases as the wave travels due to energy spreading out over a larger area. This is known as energy dissipation or spreading. As the wave propagates outward, energy is transferred to a larger region, leading to a decrease in amplitude.
What kind of light travels in a straight line?
Visible light travels in a straight line unless it encounters obstacles or mediums that cause it to bend or scatter.
What kind of wave has matter at right angles to direction wave travels?
That sounds like the description of a transverse wave.
How does intensity of a wave vary with distance?
Assuming the wave-fronts are spreading as the surface of a sphere centred on the source in a homogeneous, unobstructed medium, their amplitudes diminish as the square of the radius from the source. In decibel terms the loss is 20 Log10(radius in metres) dB.
What is the distance a wave travels in a certain amount of time is called what?
The distance that a wave travels in a certain amount of time is a wavelength. Wrong,it's speed.(:
Why does the amplitude of a progressive wave get smaller as the wave travels?
The amplitude of a progressive wave decreases as the wave travels due to energy spreading out over a larger area. This is known as energy dissipation or spreading. As the wave propagates outward, energy is transferred to a larger region, leading to a decrease in amplitude.
What kind of wave has matter that moves in the same direction as the wave travels?
Longitudinal wave.
Does attenuation happen when EM wave travels in space?
There is no attenuation due to absorption, but attenuation will occur due to divergence (spreading out) of the wave.
Sound travels in what kind of wave?
Sound travels in longitudinal waves, which means that the particles of the medium move in the same direction as the wave is propagating. This is in contrast to transverse waves where the particles move perpendicular to the wave's direction.
What is squeezing of a group of paritcles in a wave?
compression
What kind of wave travels only through a medium?
Mechanical waves, including sound waves.
What is material through which a wave travels?
The general term for what a wave travels through is a medium, but in the case of earthquakes the wave travels through the ground.
What kind of light travels in a straight line?
Visible light travels in a straight line unless it encounters obstacles or mediums that cause it to bend or scatter.
What kind of wave does sound travel through?
Sound travels through matter as transverse pressure waves.
The speed of a wave is how far the wave travels in one unit of?
The speed of a wave is how far the wave travels in one unit of time.
Which type of wave travels by pushing and pulling on matter it travels through?
That is a longitudinal wave.
The material through which a wave travels is?
The material through which a wave travels is called the medium.
