{"title":"Waves I","authors":"Jeff Duntemann","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd85m7.22","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Page 1 of 3 http://edugen.wileyplus.com/edugen/courses/crs7165/halliday9781118230...Xk5NzgxMTE4MjMwNzI1YzE2LXNlYy0wMDQ0Lnhmb3Jt.enc?course=crs7165&id=ref Print this page Review & Summary Transverse and Longitudinal Waves Mechanical waves can exist only in material media and are governed by Newton's laws. Transverse mechanical waves, like those on a stretched string, are waves in which the particles of the medium oscillate perpendicular to the wave's direction of travel. Waves in which the particles of the medium oscillate parallel to the wave's direction of travel are longitudinal waves.","PeriodicalId":255617,"journal":{"name":"Fundamentals of Physics I","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fundamentals of Physics I","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd85m7.22","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Page 1 of 3 http://edugen.wileyplus.com/edugen/courses/crs7165/halliday9781118230...Xk5NzgxMTE4MjMwNzI1YzE2LXNlYy0wMDQ0Lnhmb3Jt.enc?course=crs7165&id=ref Print this page Review & Summary Transverse and Longitudinal Waves Mechanical waves can exist only in material media and are governed by Newton's laws. Transverse mechanical waves, like those on a stretched string, are waves in which the particles of the medium oscillate perpendicular to the wave's direction of travel. Waves in which the particles of the medium oscillate parallel to the wave's direction of travel are longitudinal waves.