Quick Facts:
Real-life example: Ever jumped on a trampoline? When you bounce, you make transverse waves! Your high jump represents a peak in the graph.
Displacement-time graph
Fun Bit: In longitudinal waves, where the particles are squished together, we get a compression (like a traffic jam). Where they’re spread out? That’s a rarefaction (like the open road on an early morning).
For Dummies: If a wave had a party for 5 hours (nT) and each song played was 3 minutes long (λ), then the total party time would be the number of songs multiplied by their length!
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Quick Facts:
Real-life example: Ever jumped on a trampoline? When you bounce, you make transverse waves! Your high jump represents a peak in the graph.
Displacement-time graph
Fun Bit: In longitudinal waves, where the particles are squished together, we get a compression (like a traffic jam). Where they’re spread out? That’s a rarefaction (like the open road on an early morning).
For Dummies: If a wave had a party for 5 hours (nT) and each song played was 3 minutes long (λ), then the total party time would be the number of songs multiplied by their length!
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