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Possible duplicate of Why can't transverse waves travel through a liquid?
– Aaron Stevens
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Read the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave link pointed to at the beginning of your en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_wave link.
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Read the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave link pointed to at the beginning of your en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_wave link.
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Water waves have a transverse and a longitudinal component. As I understand it the components are the direction of motion of the wave itself and the motion of individual water molecules. The latter comprises the longitudinal component, because water molecules have circular orbits in the wave. I think this becomes clearer with this image
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Physics is an empirical science, that is an observational science. Waves in matter in general will have both a transverse and longitudinal component.
Merely by looking at the picture you have posted we can see that the transverse component of motion is far larger than the longitudinal motion on the surface of the water. By continuity, we would generally posit the same in the main body of the water.
(A more quantitative observation will look at how both these components dampen with time, with distance from the disturbance both along the surface and also in the body of the water. And a theoretical study will try to connect this with the theory of shallow waves).
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The surface waves are mostly trasversal because you push water in a localized manner and watch a side effect; the volume waves are mostly longitudinal (sound waves in a water volume below a membrane).
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Water waves can be quite complicated, they can be both transverse and longitudinal depending on what type of wave they are. I will list three types of waves that are common:
Capillary waves
Cappilary waves happen at small amplitudes and wavelengths and they are most likely what's happening in your picture. The restoring force is surface tension, so every part of the wave that's curvy has a force that is trying to make the surface less curvy. This creates waves that are mainly transverse.
Surface waves
Surface wave is a name that usually decribes a typical ocean wave. These happen when the wavelength is smaller than the depth of the ocean so they also fall under the category 'deep waves'. These deep waves show complicated behaviour: they are not perfect sinusoidals but are more peaked and the motion is a combination of longitudinal and transverse, resulting in a kind of circular motion as seen in Tatjana's answer.
Shallow water waves
Water waves are shallow when the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the water. Shallow waves are mostly longitudinal. Surprisingly tsunami's are shallow water waves even though the ocean is really deep. The wavelength of a tsunami can reach over 100km. The speed of a shallow wave goes as $v=sqrtgd$ with $g$ the gravitational acceleration and $d$ the depth of the ocean floor. Where the ocean is over 6km deep tsunami's can travel at the speed of commercial airlines.
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Water waves have a transverse and a longitudinal component. As I understand it the components are the direction of motion of the wave itself and the motion of individual water molecules. The latter comprises the longitudinal component, because water molecules have circular orbits in the wave. I think this becomes clearer with this image
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Water waves have a transverse and a longitudinal component. As I understand it the components are the direction of motion of the wave itself and the motion of individual water molecules. The latter comprises the longitudinal component, because water molecules have circular orbits in the wave. I think this becomes clearer with this image
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Water waves have a transverse and a longitudinal component. As I understand it the components are the direction of motion of the wave itself and the motion of individual water molecules. The latter comprises the longitudinal component, because water molecules have circular orbits in the wave. I think this becomes clearer with this image
answered 2 hours ago
Tatjana Gobold
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Water waves have a transverse and a longitudinal component. As I understand it the components are the direction of motion of the wave itself and the motion of individual water molecules. The latter comprises the longitudinal component, because water molecules have circular orbits in the wave. I think this becomes clearer with this image
answered 2 hours ago
Tatjana Gobold
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Tatjana Gobold
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Physics is an empirical science, that is an observational science. Waves in matter in general will have both a transverse and longitudinal component.
Merely by looking at the picture you have posted we can see that the transverse component of motion is far larger than the longitudinal motion on the surface of the water. By continuity, we would generally posit the same in the main body of the water.
(A more quantitative observation will look at how both these components dampen with time, with distance from the disturbance both along the surface and also in the body of the water. And a theoretical study will try to connect this with the theory of shallow waves).
answered 1 hour ago
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Physics is an empirical science, that is an observational science. Waves in matter in general will have both a transverse and longitudinal component.
Merely by looking at the picture you have posted we can see that the transverse component of motion is far larger than the longitudinal motion on the surface of the water. By continuity, we would generally posit the same in the main body of the water.
(A more quantitative observation will look at how both these components dampen with time, with distance from the disturbance both along the surface and also in the body of the water. And a theoretical study will try to connect this with the theory of shallow waves).
answered 1 hour ago
Mozibur Ullah
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Physics is an empirical science, that is an observational science. Waves in matter in general will have both a transverse and longitudinal component.
Merely by looking at the picture you have posted we can see that the transverse component of motion is far larger than the longitudinal motion on the surface of the water. By continuity, we would generally posit the same in the main body of the water.
(A more quantitative observation will look at how both these components dampen with time, with distance from the disturbance both along the surface and also in the body of the water. And a theoretical study will try to connect this with the theory of shallow waves).
answered 1 hour ago
Mozibur Ullah
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Physics is an empirical science, that is an observational science. Waves in matter in general will have both a transverse and longitudinal component.
Merely by looking at the picture you have posted we can see that the transverse component of motion is far larger than the longitudinal motion on the surface of the water. By continuity, we would generally posit the same in the main body of the water.
(A more quantitative observation will look at how both these components dampen with time, with distance from the disturbance both along the surface and also in the body of the water. And a theoretical study will try to connect this with the theory of shallow waves).
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Mozibur Ullah
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Mozibur Ullah
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The surface waves are mostly trasversal because you push water in a localized manner and watch a side effect; the volume waves are mostly longitudinal (sound waves in a water volume below a membrane).
answered 1 hour ago
Vladimir Kalitvianski
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The surface waves are mostly trasversal because you push water in a localized manner and watch a side effect; the volume waves are mostly longitudinal (sound waves in a water volume below a membrane).
answered 1 hour ago
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The surface waves are mostly trasversal because you push water in a localized manner and watch a side effect; the volume waves are mostly longitudinal (sound waves in a water volume below a membrane).
answered 1 hour ago
Vladimir Kalitvianski
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The surface waves are mostly trasversal because you push water in a localized manner and watch a side effect; the volume waves are mostly longitudinal (sound waves in a water volume below a membrane).
answered 1 hour ago
Vladimir Kalitvianski
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answered 1 hour ago
Vladimir Kalitvianski
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answered 1 hour ago
Vladimir Kalitvianski
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Water waves can be quite complicated, they can be both transverse and longitudinal depending on what type of wave they are. I will list three types of waves that are common:
Capillary waves
Cappilary waves happen at small amplitudes and wavelengths and they are most likely what's happening in your picture. The restoring force is surface tension, so every part of the wave that's curvy has a force that is trying to make the surface less curvy. This creates waves that are mainly transverse.
Surface waves
Surface wave is a name that usually decribes a typical ocean wave. These happen when the wavelength is smaller than the depth of the ocean so they also fall under the category 'deep waves'. These deep waves show complicated behaviour: they are not perfect sinusoidals but are more peaked and the motion is a combination of longitudinal and transverse, resulting in a kind of circular motion as seen in Tatjana's answer.
Shallow water waves
Water waves are shallow when the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the water. Shallow waves are mostly longitudinal. Surprisingly tsunami's are shallow water waves even though the ocean is really deep. The wavelength of a tsunami can reach over 100km. The speed of a shallow wave goes as $v=sqrtgd$ with $g$ the gravitational acceleration and $d$ the depth of the ocean floor. Where the ocean is over 6km deep tsunami's can travel at the speed of commercial airlines.
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Water waves can be quite complicated, they can be both transverse and longitudinal depending on what type of wave they are. I will list three types of waves that are common:
Capillary waves
Cappilary waves happen at small amplitudes and wavelengths and they are most likely what's happening in your picture. The restoring force is surface tension, so every part of the wave that's curvy has a force that is trying to make the surface less curvy. This creates waves that are mainly transverse.
Surface waves
Surface wave is a name that usually decribes a typical ocean wave. These happen when the wavelength is smaller than the depth of the ocean so they also fall under the category 'deep waves'. These deep waves show complicated behaviour: they are not perfect sinusoidals but are more peaked and the motion is a combination of longitudinal and transverse, resulting in a kind of circular motion as seen in Tatjana's answer.
Shallow water waves
Water waves are shallow when the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the water. Shallow waves are mostly longitudinal. Surprisingly tsunami's are shallow water waves even though the ocean is really deep. The wavelength of a tsunami can reach over 100km. The speed of a shallow wave goes as $v=sqrtgd$ with $g$ the gravitational acceleration and $d$ the depth of the ocean floor. Where the ocean is over 6km deep tsunami's can travel at the speed of commercial airlines.
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Water waves can be quite complicated, they can be both transverse and longitudinal depending on what type of wave they are. I will list three types of waves that are common:
Capillary waves
Cappilary waves happen at small amplitudes and wavelengths and they are most likely what's happening in your picture. The restoring force is surface tension, so every part of the wave that's curvy has a force that is trying to make the surface less curvy. This creates waves that are mainly transverse.
Surface waves
Surface wave is a name that usually decribes a typical ocean wave. These happen when the wavelength is smaller than the depth of the ocean so they also fall under the category 'deep waves'. These deep waves show complicated behaviour: they are not perfect sinusoidals but are more peaked and the motion is a combination of longitudinal and transverse, resulting in a kind of circular motion as seen in Tatjana's answer.
Shallow water waves
Water waves are shallow when the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the water. Shallow waves are mostly longitudinal. Surprisingly tsunami's are shallow water waves even though the ocean is really deep. The wavelength of a tsunami can reach over 100km. The speed of a shallow wave goes as $v=sqrtgd$ with $g$ the gravitational acceleration and $d$ the depth of the ocean floor. Where the ocean is over 6km deep tsunami's can travel at the speed of commercial airlines.
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Water waves can be quite complicated, they can be both transverse and longitudinal depending on what type of wave they are. I will list three types of waves that are common:
Capillary waves
Cappilary waves happen at small amplitudes and wavelengths and they are most likely what's happening in your picture. The restoring force is surface tension, so every part of the wave that's curvy has a force that is trying to make the surface less curvy. This creates waves that are mainly transverse.
Surface waves
Surface wave is a name that usually decribes a typical ocean wave. These happen when the wavelength is smaller than the depth of the ocean so they also fall under the category 'deep waves'. These deep waves show complicated behaviour: they are not perfect sinusoidals but are more peaked and the motion is a combination of longitudinal and transverse, resulting in a kind of circular motion as seen in Tatjana's answer.
Shallow water waves
Water waves are shallow when the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the water. Shallow waves are mostly longitudinal. Surprisingly tsunami's are shallow water waves even though the ocean is really deep. The wavelength of a tsunami can reach over 100km. The speed of a shallow wave goes as $v=sqrtgd$ with $g$ the gravitational acceleration and $d$ the depth of the ocean floor. Where the ocean is over 6km deep tsunami's can travel at the speed of commercial airlines.
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Read the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave link pointed to at the beginning of your en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_wave link.
– John Forkosh
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