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Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion

by Dan Russell, at Kettering University in Flint, MI .
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html
One of many excellent animations at Russell's Acoustics and Vibration Animations. This page shows animated gifs of mechanical waves propagate through a material medium. Particle motion for Longitudinal, Transverse, Water and Rayleigh Surface Waves are modeled.

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