transverse wave: Any wave in which the direction of disturbance is perpendicular to the direction of travel.
Q. What is a wave whose energy travels in the same direction as the energy being transferred?
1) Transverse wave : in transverse nature of waves the energy is propagated into the medium in perpendicular to the wave propagation.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is a wave whose energy travels in the same direction as the energy being transferred?
- Q. What type of wave has Chris that travels perpendicular to the movement of the wave?
- Q. What are transverse and longitudinal waves?
- Q. What are two major differences between transverse and longitudinal waves?
- Q. What are the similarities of electromagnetic waves?
- Q. What are three sources of electromagnetic waves on earth?
- Q. How are electromagnetic waves classified?
- Q. What are the 7 types of electromagnetic radiation?
- Q. Which color has the most energy Activity 4?
- Q. Which has more energy radio TV or infrared?
- Q. How do electromagnetic waves carry energy?
Q. What type of wave has Chris that travels perpendicular to the movement of the wave?
A transverse wave is a wave in which particles of the medium vibrate at right angles, or perpendicular, to the direction that the wave travels. Another example of a transverse wave is the wave that passes through a rope with you shake one end of the rope up and down, as in the Figure below.
Q. What are transverse and longitudinal waves?
Transverse waves cause the medium to move perpendicular to the direction of the wave. Longitudinal waves cause the medium to move parallel to the direction of the wave.
Q. What are two major differences between transverse and longitudinal waves?
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Transverse wave | Oscillations where particles are displaced perpendicular to the wave direction. |
| Longitudinal wave | Oscillations where particles are displaced parallel to the wave direction. |
Q. What are the similarities of electromagnetic waves?
They all have things in common. In a vacuum, they all travel at the same speed – the speed of light – which is 3 × 108 m/s. They are all transverse waves, with the oscillations being electric and magnetic fields. Like all waves, they can be reflected, refracted and diffracted.
Q. What are three sources of electromagnetic waves on earth?
Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation
- solar radiation, in other words natural radiation that originates from the sun.
- terrestrial radiation, in other words natural radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface.
- artificial radiation originating from a remote sensing system.
Q. How are electromagnetic waves classified?
Generally, electromagnetic radiation is classified by wavelength into radio wave, microwave, terahertz (or sub-millimeter) radiation, infrared, the visible region we perceive as light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. The behavior of electromagnetic radiation depends on its wavelength.
Q. What are the 7 types of electromagnetic radiation?
The EM spectrum is generally divided into seven regions, in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing energy and frequency. The common designations are: radio waves, microwaves, infrared (IR), visible light, ultraviolet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays.
Q. Which color has the most energy Activity 4?
Violet has the most energy in the visible light spectrum. This is because it has the shortest wavelength (approximately 400nm) and highest frequency meaning more waves and more energy is being transferred from point A to point B in a very short amount of time.
Q. Which has more energy radio TV or infrared?
The different types of radiation are defined by the the amount of energy found in the photons. Radio waves have photons with low energies, microwave photons have a little more energy than radio waves, infrared photons have still more, then visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, and, the most energetic of all, gamma-rays.
Q. How do electromagnetic waves carry energy?
In electromagnetic waves, energy is transferred through vibrations of electric and magnetic fields. In sound waves, energy is transferred through vibration of air particles or particles of a solid through which the sound travels. In water waves, energy is transferred through the vibration of the water particles.
