Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying longitudinal waves, transverse waves ...

Mechanical waves require a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel through. They propagate energy by causing particles in the medium to oscillate. These can be: Transverse Waves: In transverse ...

There are two kinds of waves: longitudinal ones and transverse ones. Transverse waves, as NASA notes, are probably what most people think of when they picture waves—like the up-down ripples of a ...