Sound waves are the waves that travel by squeezing and spreading.
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.
Visible light travels in a straight line unless it encounters obstacles or mediums that cause it to bend or scatter.
That sounds like the description of a transverse wave.
Transverse wave.
The distance in which a wave travels is known as wavelength. It is the distance between two consecutive points in a wave that are in phase.
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.
Longitudinal wave.
There is no attenuation due to absorption, but attenuation will occur due to divergence (spreading out) of the 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.
compression
The general term for what a wave travels through is a medium, but in the case of earthquakes the wave travels through the ground.
Mechanical waves, including sound waves.
Visible light travels in a straight line unless it encounters obstacles or mediums that cause it to bend or scatter.
That is a longitudinal wave.
Sound travels through matter as transverse pressure waves.
The speed of a wave is how far the wave travels in one unit of time.
How quickly the wave travels