The quantity of energy carried relates to the amplitude of the wave. In transverse waves, the particles of the medium vibrate at right angles to the direction that the energy travels. This is ...

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 ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational ...