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I'm not sure if this is right, but I think that it is frequency, because it is independent of mass.

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Which characteristics do transverse waves and longitudinal waves have in common?

Both transverse and longitudinal waves are forms of mechanical waves that transfer energy through a medium. They both exhibit properties such as wavelength, frequency, and amplitude. Additionally, they can both undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.


WHAT ARE SOME PROPERTIES OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE?

Transverse waves oscillate perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. They exhibit properties such as amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and speed. Furthermore, they can undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.


What is wave behavior of water?

Wave behavior of water refers to the movement of water in response to energy transfer from wind or seismic activity. Water waves exhibit characteristics like amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. They can also undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference, leading to various wave phenomena such as tides, tsunamis, and ripples.


What doearthquakes waves have in common with other waves?

Earthquake waves, like other types of waves, carry energy and propagate through a medium. They can be described in terms of wavelength, frequency, and amplitude. Additionally, earthquake waves can undergo reflection, refraction, and diffraction just like other waves.


How would a wave be affected if its frequency increased and its wavelength remained constant as the wave entered a new medium?

Will not ever happen. Wavelength and frequency are each others reciprocals. Frequency divided into 1 equals its' wavelength and visa versa. It would speed up. EM waves do a maximum of 'c' in the interstellar medium 'vacuum' but slow down in more dense media. ie. from 186,200 to a little less in the atmosphere, to 140,000 in water, less still in glass, and down to virtually zero in Bose-Einstein Condensate. On leaving water, if the wavelength were to remain constant the frequency and thus velocity would increase. i.e. the rule in the previous answer is only correct for any one given medium. Out of interest this fact actually disproves an original assumption behind SR, as EM wave speed in the vacuum is 'absolute' with respect to the medium.

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Which characteristics do transverse waves and longitudinal waves have in common?

Both transverse and longitudinal waves are forms of mechanical waves that transfer energy through a medium. They both exhibit properties such as wavelength, frequency, and amplitude. Additionally, they can both undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.


WHAT ARE SOME PROPERTIES OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE?

Transverse waves oscillate perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. They exhibit properties such as amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and speed. Furthermore, they can undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.


What is wave behavior of water?

Wave behavior of water refers to the movement of water in response to energy transfer from wind or seismic activity. Water waves exhibit characteristics like amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. They can also undergo reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference, leading to various wave phenomena such as tides, tsunamis, and ripples.


Should people traveling in airplanes have to undergo intensive security screenings?

yes


What doearthquakes waves have in common with other waves?

Earthquake waves, like other types of waves, carry energy and propagate through a medium. They can be described in terms of wavelength, frequency, and amplitude. Additionally, earthquake waves can undergo reflection, refraction, and diffraction just like other waves.


Can a transgender person undergo hormone replacement therapy to align their physical characteristics with their gender identity?

Yes, a transgender person can undergo hormone replacement therapy to align their physical characteristics with their gender identity.


How would a wave be affected if its frequency increased and its wavelength remained constant as the wave entered a new medium?

Will not ever happen. Wavelength and frequency are each others reciprocals. Frequency divided into 1 equals its' wavelength and visa versa. It would speed up. EM waves do a maximum of 'c' in the interstellar medium 'vacuum' but slow down in more dense media. ie. from 186,200 to a little less in the atmosphere, to 140,000 in water, less still in glass, and down to virtually zero in Bose-Einstein Condensate. On leaving water, if the wavelength were to remain constant the frequency and thus velocity would increase. i.e. the rule in the previous answer is only correct for any one given medium. Out of interest this fact actually disproves an original assumption behind SR, as EM wave speed in the vacuum is 'absolute' with respect to the medium.


How do you change frequency of light?

Shining ultraviolet light from an electrical plasma on to phosphors as found in a fluorescent lamp tube causes the outer electrons of the fluorescent powder to undergo quantum jumps to a higher energy level. When the electrons fall back to their original orbit they emit a single photon of light in the visible spectrum. This lowers it's frequency. If you or the source of light is moving very fast Doppler shifts occur to raise or lower the light frequency depending on whether you are moving towards or away from the light source. This a conmmon technique used in astronomy to estimate speeds of moving objects. UV light from the Sun hits the Earth's surface and is re radiated as infra red heat which is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.The greenhouse effect.


Why does the force of a muscle decrease over time during uninterrupted stimulation?

The muscle is said to undergo Fatigue.


A Mack truck and a Mini Cooper traveling at the same speed have a head-on collision The vehicle to undergo the greatest change in velocity will be the?

mini cooper


What does light waves do when it moves from one medium to another?

A light wave can slow down or speed up when it enters another medium. Since the speed of wave motion in general depends on characteristics of the environment, you can always expect the speed of a wave to change as it moves from one medium to another. In the case of sound, it's the mechanical characteristics that matter, whereas for light and other electromagnetic waves, the determining characteristics are the electrical ones. So the speed of light changes when it enters a different medium. Now, since the product of (frequency) x (wavelength) is the wave speed, and the frequency can't change, we notice that if the speed changes, then the wavelength also changes in a new medium. Furthermore, right at the interface ... the boundary between the two media ... if the light doesn't hit the boundary exactly perpendicular to it, then we say that the light is "refracted" at the boundary, meaning that the light leaves the boundary in the new medium in a different direction compared to its direction in the previous medium.


Violet light has a very short wavelength. How will violet light react in the process of dispersion?

Violet light will bend the most because it has the shortest wavelength compared to other colors in the visible spectrum. This causes violet light to undergo the most amount of refraction, which results in a greater separation of its colors during the process of dispersion.