What are the features of a transverse wave?

Answer 1

There are two kinds of waves. First, there is a transverse wave. This type of wave causes the medium to move perpendicular to the direction of the wave.

The amplitude is the height of the wave.

The wavelength is the distance from one wave top, or crest, to the next.

Answer 2

A transverse wave is characterized by oscillations perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. It has crests and troughs, and examples include light waves, electromagnetic waves, and some seismic waves. Transverse waves exhibit properties such as reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction.

Answer 3

A compressional (longitudinal) wave looks like a slinky spread apart and then pushed together. They use these waves in animations to determine how bad an earthquake was.

~by RkB (by the way I am 12 but we have been doing this since the beginning of the year...HUGE thanks to my beloved science teacher *SB*)

Answer 4

A transverse wave in three dimension looks (similar in geometry) like semicircular pipes joined very closely and moving with there longitudinal axes perpendicular to the propagation direction and this is for a transverse wave with vertical component.

a visual example would be a spring or slinky

Answer 5

When you make a wave on a rope, the wave moves from one end of the rope to the other. But the rope itself moves up and down or from side to side, at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels. Waves that move the medium at right angles to the direction in which the waves travel are called transverse waves. Transverse means "across". As a transverse wave moves, the particles of the medium move across, or at right angle to, the direction of the wave.

Answer 6

A sound wave looks like a ripple in the air. The vibrations are not up and down as depicted in most drawings, the are compressions in the air, getting larger the further they are away from the source. in order to see them, you must have very expensive technology, and must have a good eye.

Answer 7

There are 2 types of waves

-longitudinal waves

- transverse

longitudinal waves like a spring

transverse waves are like a up and down motion

Answer 8

Crest, Trough, Amplitude, Wave Length

Answer 9

an example of and transverse wave

Answer 10

Light (and its Transverse not "traverse")