transverse vibrations

American  

plural noun

Physics.

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

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Example Sentences

The property is rather a kind of elasticity, which ordinary fluids do not possess, but which facilitates the propagation of transverse vibrations.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

Ordinary light has transverse vibrations in all planes.

From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Thus the transverse vibrations of a circular membrane lead to the theory of Bessel’s Functions; the oscillations of a spherical sheet of air suggest the theory of expansions in spherical harmonics, and so forth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

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

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various