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Oscillation of Energy: An Oscillation That Travels Through A Medium

The document discusses different types of waves. It describes mechanical waves, which require a medium and involve oscillation of the medium's particles, and electromagnetic waves, which do not require a medium. It also describes two types of mechanical waves: longitudinal waves, where vibrations are parallel to the direction of motion and involve compressions and rarefactions; and transverse waves, where vibrations are perpendicular to the direction of motion, as seen in waves on a string. Key wave properties like wavelength, frequency, velocity, and amplitude are also defined.

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Oscillation of Energy: An Oscillation That Travels Through A Medium

The document discusses different types of waves. It describes mechanical waves, which require a medium and involve oscillation of the medium's particles, and electromagnetic waves, which do not require a medium. It also describes two types of mechanical waves: longitudinal waves, where vibrations are parallel to the direction of motion and involve compressions and rarefactions; and transverse waves, where vibrations are perpendicular to the direction of motion, as seen in waves on a string. Key wave properties like wavelength, frequency, velocity, and amplitude are also defined.

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Waves Waves - oscillation of energy: an oscillation that travels through a medium by transferring energy from one particle or point

to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium Introduction Wave Motion, in physics, mechanism by which energy is conveyed from one place to another in mechanically propagated waves without the transference of matter. At any point along the path of transmission a periodic displacement, or oscillation, occurs about a neutral position. The oscillation may be of air molecules, as in the case of sound travelling through the atmosphere; of water molecules, as in waves occurring on the surface of the ocean; or of portions of a rope or a wire spring. In each of these cases the particles of matter oscillate about their own equilibrium position and only the energy moves continuously in one direction. Such waves are called mechanical because the energy is transmitted through a material medium, without a mass movement of the medium itself. The only form of wave motion that requires no material medium for transmission is the electromagnetic wave; in this case the displacement is of electric and magnetic fields of force in space.

b) Another type of wave is the transverse wave, in which the vibrations are at right angles to the direction of motion. A transverse wave may be mechanical, such as the wave projected in a taut string that is subjected to a transverse vibration; or it may be electromagnetic, such as light, X ray, or radio waves . For a transverse wave, the wavelength is the distance between two successive crests or troughs.. The frequency of the wave is the number of vibrations per second. The velocity of the wave, which is the speed at which it advances, is equal to the wavelength times the frequency. The maximum displacement involved in the vibration is called the amplitude of the wave.

Types of Waves and Their Properties Waves are divided into types according to the direction of the displacements in relation to the direction of the motion of the wave itself. a) If the vibration is parallel to the direction of motion, the wave is known as a longitudinal wave). The longitudinal wave is always mechanical because it results from successive compressions (state of maximum density and pressure) and rarefactions (state of minimum density and pressure) of the medium. For longitudinal waves, it is the distance from compression to compression or rarefaction to rarefaction

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