Physics
Grade-8
Easy

Question

A wave is a ____ that penetrates through a medium.

  1. Force
  2. Work
  3. Disturbance
  4. All of the above

hintHint:

The wave is a disturbance that penetrates through a medium.

The correct answer is: Disturbance


    • The wave is a disturbance that penetrates through a medium.
    • They can be of two types mechanical and non mechanical.
    • Mechanical waves needs a material medium for propagation and it cause a relative motion between the particles of the medium.

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