What's transverse waves?
What would be an ideal response?
Answer:
Waves on a water surface, electromagnetic waves and seismic waves are all transverse waves.
The particles of water move in a direction at right angles to the direction the wave is travelling.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Of all the chemical elements, the one most crucial to the complexity of life is:
A) hydrogen. B) oxygen. C) sulfur. D) carbon. E) nitrogen.
During the period each year when we see Mars undergoing apparent retrograde motion in our sky, what is really going on in space?
A) Mars is moving around the Sun in the opposite direction from which Earth is moving around the Sun. B) Earth and Mars are getting closer together. C) Earth is catching up with and passing by Mars in their respective orbits. D) Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun.
The depth to which an inverted drinking glass must be pushed beneath the water surface to squeeze the enclosed air to half its volume is
A) 76 cm. B) 10.3 m. C) 14.7 m. D) 20.6 m. E) 29.4 m.