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When waves from the southwest strike a beach that runs east and west the direction of the long shore current will be?
The long shore current will typically flow parallel to the beach in a northeast or southeast direction following the direction of the incoming waves from the southwest. This current is generated as the waves push water along the shoreline, causing a movement of water in the same direction as the wave approach.
Which one of the following statements is true concerning primary waves?
Primary waves (P-waves) are the fastest seismic waves and are the first to arrive at a seismograph after an earthquake. They travel through solids, liquids, and gases, but their speed and direction change when they pass from one material to another.
What are the two types of waves according to the direction of propagation?
The two types of waves based on the direction of propagation are transverse waves, where the wave oscillates perpendicular to the direction of propagation, and longitudinal waves, where the wave oscillates parallel to the direction of propagation.
What Are waves in which particles move back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave?
Transverse waves are waves in which the particles move back and forth perpendicular to the direction of the wave. Longitudinal waves are waves in which the particles move back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave. Sound waves are an example of longitudinal waves, where air particles vibrate in the same direction as the wave travels.
What waves occur when the motion of the medium is at right angles (perpendicular) to the direction of the wave.?
Transverse waves occur when the motion of the medium is perpendicular to the direction of the wave. In these waves, the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of energy transport. Examples of transverse waves include electromagnetic waves like light and water waves.
From which direction does the waves arrive at beach?
It depends on the wind direction. The waves may be straight on to the shore, or hit the shore at an angle.
What are waves that arrive after primary waves?
Secondary waves, also known as S-waves, are seismic waves that arrive after primary waves (P-waves) during an earthquake. They are slower than P-waves and travel through the Earth by causing particles to move in a perpendicular motion to the direction of wave propagation.
When waves from the southwest strike a beach that runs east and west the direction of the long shore current will be?
The long shore current will typically flow parallel to the beach in a northeast or southeast direction following the direction of the incoming waves from the southwest. This current is generated as the waves push water along the shoreline, causing a movement of water in the same direction as the wave approach.
Do p waves s waves transverse waves or surface waves arrive first?
P waves arrive first.
When waves change speed when moving from one medium to another?
Then, if they don't arrive from the direction perpendicular to the interface, they are refracted.
When waves from the southwest strike a beach that runs east and west the direction of the longshore current is?
Yes.
What are the waves that arrive after primary waves in the Earth?
Secondary waves.
When waves from the southwest strike a beach that runs east and west the direction of the longshore current is likely to be toward the?
east.
What waves will arrive at a seismograph station first after an earthquake?
The fastest seismic waves, P-waves, will arrive first at a seismograph station after an earthquake. P-waves are compressional waves that can travel through both solids and liquids, allowing them to arrive at a station before the slower S-waves and surface waves.
Why all waves in the sea arrive directly on the beach also that in open sea they are in all direction?
they really don't all arrive directly on shore, and in the deep sea they tend to radiate outward from areas of high winds, storms, but three things produce the effect you are noticing, 1. wave producing storms are more common far away from land, so waves tend to travel toward land. 2. cross shore waves will be greatly reduced by 'dragging' along the coast, dissipated or scattered back out to sea, so most waves will be at a steep angle to the coast. 3. the waves you see are the result of much longer and shallower ( and faster ) waves being 'hunched' by running up a sloping sea bed, so on a given beach only the waves from a certain direction will be best 'hunched' up, the others will be long and shallow and unnoticed, and the slope is pretty fixed and locally onshore. Notice that clean 'glassy' waves, result from far away storms, less cross swell, and that, certain beaches produce the biggest waves only for a particular direction of deep swell, and also that as a deep swell generating storm, moving in the prevailing direction, will produce the best waves on a predictable sequence of beaches.
What seismic waves occur arrive after p waves?
Secondary waves.
Are surface waves the first to arrive at a seismic facilty?
No, surface waves are typically the last seismic waves to arrive at a seismic facility. They travel more slowly than body waves (P and S waves) and arrive after the initial shaking caused by the faster body waves.
