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What is characteristics of a wave?

They need a medium to propagate through.


Medium for the wave?

The medium of any wave is the material that the wave energy travels through; in this case water.


What is a wave which needs a medium in order to propagate itself?

A mechanical wave, such as sound waves or seismic waves, requires a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) in order to propagate because the wave energy is transferred through the particles of the medium vibrating or oscillating. Without a medium, these types of waves cannot travel.


What materials will you need to create a wave?

To create a wave, you will need a medium such as water or air, a source of energy to disturb the medium (like wind or a vibrating object), and space for the wave to propagate.


What is meant by the medium of a wave?

Waves need a medium to propagate themselves through. The waves generated on a pond by a falling droplet need a medium, in this case its the very water of the pond. Sound waves can propagate both though a water medium or an air medium for example. Electromagnetic waves are an exception in that they do not need a medium to propagate through (the can propagate through the void of interstellar space).


What is the medium of wave propagation?

The "medium" for a wave is whatever the wave goes through - or more precisely, whatever it needs, in order to propagate. In this case, the Earth.


What type of wave requires a medium to propagate and cannot travel through a vacuum?

The type of wave that requires a medium to propagate and cannot travel through a vacuum is called a mechanical wave.


Do sound require a medium?

Sound waves need a medium to propagate. Light-waves and other electromagnetic wave (radio, xray) do not.


What is the medium propagation of earhquake waves?

The Earth itself is.


What type of wave does need medium to travel?

Mechanical waves, such as sound waves and water waves, require a medium in order to propagate because the particles of the medium are involved in the transfer of energy from one point to another. In the absence of a medium, these waves cannot travel.


A mechanical wave genrally does NOT?

A mechanical wave generally does NOT require a medium to propagate.


What do mechanical waves need to propagate?

Mechanical waves badly need a material medium to get propagated. For example sound waves need air, water or solid medium to pass through. But light though it is a wave, it could pass through even through vacuum. Hence it is not a mechanical wave. But it is proved to be an electromagnetic wave. Present science has accepted even free space ie vacuum to be a medium but it is non-material medium.