physics, a transverse wave is a wave that oscillates perpendicularly to the direction of the wave's advance. In contrast, a longitudinal wave travels in...

Mechanical waves can be produced only in media which possess elasticity and inertia. There are three types of mechanical waves: transverse waves, longitudinal...

the plane perpendicular (i.e., transverse) to the radiation's propagation direction. Transverse modes occur in radio waves and microwaves confined to a...

type of wave is the transverse wave, in which the displacements of the medium are at right angles to the direction of propagation. Transverse waves, for...

polarisation, is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave, the direction of the oscillation...

Creeping wave, a wave diffracted around a sphere Evanescent field Longitudinal wave Periodic travelling wave Sine wave Square wave Standing wave Transverse wave...

The wave impedance of an electromagnetic wave is the ratio of the transverse components of the electric and magnetic fields (the transverse components...

mounted side by side Transverse wave, a wave that causes a disturbance in the medium perpendicular to the direction it advances Transverse Island, an island...

and a transverse wave if they are always orthogonal (perpendicular) to it. Often the term "plane wave" refers specifically to a traveling plane wave, whose...

electromagnetic wave must be a transverse wave, where the electric field E and the magnetic field B are both perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation...

such as air, water and solids as longitudinal waves and also as a transverse wave in solids. The sound waves are generated by a sound source, such as the...

electromagnetic wave must be a transverse wave, where the electric field E and the magnetic field B are both perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation...

with sound, but it can also be a transverse wave as with the vibration of a taut string. When applied to a sound wave through a medium of a fluid like...

forces with different directions. By further supposing that light waves are purely transverse, Fresnel explained the nature of polarization, the mechanism...

length along the x-axis that is free to be stretched transversely in the y direction. For a harmonic wave traveling to the right along the string, the string's...

wave in solids. Only compression waves are supported in gases and liquids. An additional type of wave, the transverse wave, also called a shear wave,...

A crest point on a wave is the highest point of the wave. A crest is a point on a surface wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum. A...

of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves. S waves are transverse waves, meaning that the...

longitudinal wave velocity of 5965 m/s and transverse wave velocity of 3750 m/s. Fluids cannot support transverse waves. As a result, transverse wave signals...

propagation direction, rather than two polarizations like a transverse wave. Thus, longitudinal waves can not explain birefringence, in which two polarizations...

who was the first to understand that light is a transverse wave, when no one realized that the waves were electric and magnetic fields. For the first...

ship or model was at its so-called Hull speed the wave pattern of the transverse waves (the waves along the hull) have a wavelength equal to the length...

mode of the wave at the liquid-substrate interface. In the substrate, the SAW wave is a transverse wave and upon entering the droplet the wave becomes a...

light can be explained by the wave theory if light were a transverse wave. Later, Fresnel independently worked out his own wave theory of light and presented...

Alfvén waves propagate in the direction of the magnetic field, and the motion of the ions and the perturbation of the magnetic field are transverse to the...

theory of waves. A wave can be longitudinal where the oscillations are parallel (or antiparallel) to the propagation direction, or transverse where the...

the wave propagation. In a transverse wave, the atoms vibrate perpendicular to the wave propagation. However, except for isotropic crystals, waves in a...

as sound), but it can also be a transverse wave, such as the vibration of a taut string. In the case of a sound wave travelling through air, the particle...

a consequence of the fact that light behaves as a two-dimensional transverse wave. Circular polarization occurs when the two orthogonal electric field...

producing a wave-like motion, known as a gravity wave. Although the undular bore waves appear as bands of clouds across the sky, they are transverse waves, and...