How are transverse waves formed?
1 Answer
By particles moving up and down (i.e vibrations). The particles move perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.
Transverse waves are created when a motion perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the wave is induced in the molecules that make up that medium.
As you can see in the above gif, vibrating the molecules perpendicular to the direction of the wave will produce an up-and-down movement that will create alternating high points, or crests, and low points, or troughs.
