longitudinal wave in a sentence

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1. Its ground color is white, covered with transverse striae and longitudinal waving reddish lines, often divided into three portions in their length.
2. The transverse and type I ( or fast ) longitudinal wave are similar to the transverse and longitudinal waves in an elastic solid, respectively.
3. The transverse and type I ( or fast ) longitudinal wave are similar to the transverse and longitudinal waves in an elastic solid, respectively.
4. Sound is a longitudinal wave and that the above must be so is obvious .  Preceding contribs ) 19 : 21, 15 April 2007
5. But Maxwell's equations do lead to the appearance of longitudinal waves under some circumstances, for example, in plasma waves or guided waves.
6. Tesla researched ways to transmit energy wirelessly over long distances, first by transverse waves, and then, according to him, by longitudinal waves.
7. The shear wave speed is governed by the shear modulus G which is less than E and B, making shear waves slower than longitudinal waves.
8. He pointed out that the difference in the effective mass or friction coefficient between anions and cations would result in different displacement amplitudes in a longitudinal wave.
9. The ovate, conical shell is very pointed at its summit . it is of a pale red, often ornamented with longitudinal waved and distant bands.
10. Sound waves are what physicists call longitudinal waves, which consist of propagating regions of high pressure ( compression ) and corresponding regions of low pressure ( rarefaction ).