transverse compressional wave
1Longitudinal wave — Longitudinal waves, as known as l waves , are waves that have the same direction of vibration as their direction of travel, which means that the movement of the medium is in the same direction as or the opposite direction to the motion of the… …
2shear wave — ▪ physics transverse wave that occurs in an elastic (elasticity) medium when it is subjected to periodic shear. Shear is the change of shape, without change of volume, of a layer of the substance, produced by a pair of equal forces acting… …
3S-wave — can also refer to the lowest energy electronic wavefunction in atomic physics; see atomic orbital. A type of seismic wave, the S wave, secondary wave, or shear wave, sometimes called an elastic S wave, is one of the two main types of elastic body …
4seismic wave — Vibration generated by an earthquake, explosion, or similar phenomenon and propagated within the Earth or along its surface. Earthquakes generate two principal types of waves: body waves, which travel within the Earth, and surface waves, which… …
5Seismic wave — Seismic waves are waves that travel through the Earth, most often as the result of a tectonic earthquake, sometimes from an explosion. Seismic waves are also continually excited by the pounding of ocean waves and the wind. Seismic waves are… …
6Quartz crystal microbalance — A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measures a mass per unit area by measuring the change in frequency of a quartz crystal resonator. The resonance is disturbed by the addition or removal of a small mass due to oxide growth/decay or film… …
7Poromechanics — is a branch of physics and specifically continuum mechanics and acoustics that studies the behaviour of fluid saturated porous media. A porous medium or a porous material is a solid (often called matrix) permeated by an interconnected network of… …
8Slinky — A Slinky is a coil shaped toy invented by mechanical engineer Richard James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [http://web.mit.edu/Invent/iow/slinky.html Inventor of the Week: Archive ] ] It could go down stairs by walking end over end . [ Reader s… …
9solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …
10earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …
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