What's A Longitudinal Wave

Longitudinal waves are waves that have the same direction of vibration as their direction of travel, which means that the movement of the medium is in the same direction as or the opposite direction to the motion of the wave. Mechanical longitudinal waves have been also referred to as compressional waves or compression waves.

How Does Sound Waves Works

Sound waves work as variations of pressure in a medium such as air. They are created by the vibration of an object, which causes the air surrounding it to vibrate. The vibrating air then causes the human eardrum to vibrate, which the brain interprets as sound.

Transverse Wave Information

This is a transverse wave, this is basically a wave starting from one direction to the other, each time the wave is formed, the current moves from pointA to pointB, as soon as it reaches pointB, the current repels back to pointA.

Transverse wave in a Mexican wave

Today we demostrated how a transverse wave occured in a Mexican wave, this happened by the energy going from our arms to the air in forwards directions,and the direction of the Mexican wave was going up and down.