Sentence examples for longitudinal wave from inspiring English sources
noun
Any wave in which the direction of disturbance is parallel to the direction of travel.
A transverse representation of a longitudinal wave is shown at the bottom of the figure.
A succession of rarefactions and compressions makes up the longitudinal wave motion that emanates from an acoustic source.
In a longitudinal wave the oscillating disturbance is parallel to the direction of propagation.
The longitudinal wave was a kind of potential error source in the PQC measurements.
The longitudinal wave propagation in multiwalled carbon nanotubes is investigated using the nonlocal elasticity theory.
The influence of the longitudinal wave is more obvious in a test liquid of lower density.
Here, the longitudinal wave propagation in a rod with variable cross-section is investigated.
The Young's modulus can be expressed using only the longitudinal wave velocity (VP).
The drill stem is modelled as a rod structure to account for longitudinal wave propagation.
The longitudinal wave effect can be efficiently eliminated by using a rough reflection surface.
Rarefaction, in the physics of sound, segment of one cycle of a longitudinal wave during its travel or motion, the other segment being compression.
