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 L wave

Longitudinal Traveling Wave 2

 

 

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Longitudinal Traveling Wave 1

Longitudinal Traveling Wave with graph of pressure variation

Transverse Traveling Wave

Types of waves (traveling vs stationary; transverse vs longitudinal)

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Longitudinal Traveling Wave:

  1. The arrows in the above diagram are displacements, not velocities.
  2. All particles inside a compression are moving in the same direction of the propagation of the wave, while those inside a rarefaction are moving in the opposite direction.
  3. At the central part of a compression or a rarefaction, the displacement is zero and the speed is the greatest.
  4. But in a longitudinal stationary wave, the centers of compressions and rarefactions are NODES. Their displacements are zero and always at rest.

 

 

 


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  • Last Update:2019-3-20