Physics
Grade-9
Easy

Question

Mechanical transverse waves cannot travel through:

  1. Solids
  2. Liquids
  3. Gas
  4. It can travel through all the above

hintHint:

A transverse wave is a wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave's advance

The correct answer is: Gas


    Transverse waves cannot propagate in a gas because there is no mechanism for driving motion perpendicular to the propagation of the wave.

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