A wave is the disturbance of a medium that travels through space with no change in its shape. A mechanical wave in a stretched spring, a water wave on the surface of a lake, and a sound wave in the air are good examples of traveling waves. There are two types of traveling waves. ...
Edge waves have a cross-shore nodal structure, similar to that of normally incident (perpendicular to the shore) and reflected infragravity waves (Guza, 1974). To identify edge waves unambiguously in the field (where one might try and observe at a nodal point where there is no water level ...
Analogous to the flat coil design, the membrane is accelerated away from the coil by a magnetic field, generating an acoustic wave that emerges radially, perpendicular to the beam axis. The generated pressure pulse is focused after reflection off the reflector. At high-energy settings, each ...
The speed of a wave depends on the properties of the medium through which it travels. For example, sound travels much faster through water than through air. When a wave enters at an angle a medium through which its speed would be slower, the wave is bent toward the perpendicular. When a...
As the wave travels around the stadium, each spectator stands up and sits down. Thus, the displacement of the "particles" is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels. Many other waves, such as ocean waves or Rayleigh Surface Waves are combinations of longitudinal and transverse wave ...
The motion becomes perpendicular to the original direction sending turbulent flow away from the collision. A turbulent cloud perpendicular to the original direction of motion begins to form and move in the same way that reconnected vortex rings have been shown to move in water. Due to the high...
The speed of a wave depends on the properties of the medium through which it travels. For example, sound travels much faster through water than through air. When a wave enters at an angle a medium through which its speed would be slower, the wave is bent toward the perpendicular. When a...
Waves that travel perpendicular to the direction of oscillations causing the wave are called transverse waves and those traveling parallelly are called longitudinal waves. Sound waves are longitudinal waves in fluids but can be both transverse and longitudinal...
behave like rippling waves in the ocean. To visualize a wave, take a piece of paper and keep drawing a line up and down while pulling the paper perpendicular to the line. Modulate the line by making it different lengths as you draw it with the paper moving, and notice the resulting patt...
In order to determine the position of a touch along a second axis that is generally perpendicular to the first axis, a second converting means is provided for converting portions of a shear wave along second parallel paths extending across the touch surface of the substrate, each of these secon...