transverse vibrations

plural noun

, Physics.

periodic disturbances for which the particle oscillations of the medium are perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

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It is quite clear that it will make transverse vibrations similarly in all horizontal directions.

But as the head increases, so do the lateral velocities which go to form the transverse vibrations.

The idea of transverse vibrations carried with it another puzzle.

Let us therefore endeavour to form a mental picture of this aetherial wave motion with its transverse vibrations.

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