Question

The major difference between transverse and longitudinal waves is the:

Answer 1

In transversal wave particles do not oscillate along the line of the wave propagation but oscillate up and down about their mean position as the wave travels.thus transverse wave is the one in which individual particles of the medium move about their mean position in a direction perpendicular to the direction of wave propprgation.
In longitutional waves the individual particles of the medium move in the direction parallel to the direction of the propprgation of the disturbance. The particles do not move from one place to another but the simply oscillate back and forth about their position of the rest.
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