TYPES OF

WAVES
SCIENCE REPORTING

7-Faith, Group 2
 OBJECTIVES
• Identify the types of waves
• Differentiate the types of waves
• Define and Interpret the different types of waves
• Pinpoint the characteristics of each wave type
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 CATEGORIES
OF WAVES

MECHANICAL WAVES ELECTROMAGNETIC MATTER WAVES

WAVES
MECHANICAL WAVES
• are caused by disturbance or vibration in matter.
is a wave that is an oscillation of matter and is responsible
for the transfer of energy through a medium.

WHAT IS A MEDIUM?
Medium is matter where mechanical waves propagate
 TYPES OF
MECHANICAL WAVES
LONGITUDINAL WAVES TRANSVERSE WAVES

a wave in which the a wave in which the

particles of the medium particles of the medium
move the same or parallel move perpendicular to
to the direction of the the direction of the
movement of the wave. movement of the wave.
 TYPES OF
MECHANICAL WAVES
LONGITUDINAL WAVES TRANSVERSE WAVES
 EXAMPLES
LONGITUDINAL TRANSVERSE
 LONGITUDINAL TRANSVERSE
DIFFERENCES THE PARTICLES OF THE
MEDIUM VIBRATE IN THE
THE PARTICLES MOVE AT
RIGHT ANGLES TO THE
DIRECTION
BETWEEN THE SAME DIRECTION
OF WAVE PROPAGATION

TWO WAVES THEY ARE POSSIBLE IN

ALL KIND OF MEDIA
THEY ARE POSSIBLE ONLY
IN SOLIDS

THEY CONSIST OF REGIONS THEY CONSIST OF CRESTS

OF COMPRESSION AND AND TROUGHS
RAREFACTION

LONGITUDINAL THEY CANNOT BE THEY CAN BE

VS POLARISED POLARISED
TRANSVERSE

EX: SOUND WAVES EX: VIBRATION

IN AIR IN STRING
 ELECTROMAGNETIC
WAVES
are waves that are created as a result of vibrations
between an electric field and a magnetic field.

Electromagnetic waves are waves that can transmit its

energy with or without a medium or in vacuum space.

It is a Non-Mechanical Wave

 EXAMPLES
RADIO WAVES TELEVISION WAVES
NON-
MECHANICAL
VS MECHANICAL
 MATTER WAVES
are also called De Broglie waves. They depict the wave nature of all
matter, everything which makes up our body, atoms, etc. it is proven
that the matter waves are very small and these waves are produced
in electrons and particles.

Various equations called the De Broglie equations basically suggest

the dual nature of matter. The frequency of these waves is directly
dependent on their kinetic energy.
 MATTER WAVES
— This concept is a little complicated to understand. The dual nature
of matter; its ability to exist both as a particle and a wave was first
brought to light by the founders of the field of Quantum Physics.

— For example, a beam of electrons can be diffracted just like any

other beam of electromagnetic radiation or water wave. This property
of matter was brought forward by Louis de Broglie’s Hypothesis.