What is the relationship between the amplitude of a wave and its frequency?
What does it do to the amplitude? Frequency; it decreases the amplitude of the wave as it propagates. Frequency; it increases the amplitude of the wave as it propagates.
How can you tell if a wave has a high or low amplitude?
A high energy wave is characterized by a high amplitude; a low energy wave is characterized by a low amplitude.
Which wave has the largest amplitude and this is the most destructive?
surface waves
Which type of wave causes the strongest vibrations and worst damage?
Surface waves
Do Love or Rayleigh waves cause more damage?
Love waves cause more damage than Rayleigh waves, but both are highly destructive because they occur near the surface of the Earth.
Why do love waves cause the most damage?
Love waves have a particle motion, which, like the S-wave, is transverse to the direction of propagation but with no vertical motion. Their side-to-side motion (like a snake wriggling) causes the ground to twist from side to side, that’s why Love waves cause the most damage to structures.
Which type of waves are useful to seismologist?
Answer: Body waves is the type of wave that is useful to the seismologists in studying the earth’s interior. Body waves are one of the main type of seismic waves — are the waves of energy caused by sudden breaking or explosion within the earth.
Who named Rayleigh waves?
Lord Rayleigh
Which is faster Rayleigh or Love wave?
The speed with which both types of waves circle the globe is truly mind boggling. Love waves race around the Earth at almost 10,000 miles per hour. Their relatives, the Rayleigh waves, lag behind slightly, but still speed at about 7800 miles an hour. It seems that only the International Space Station is faster.
Is Love waves faster than Rayleigh waves?
Love waves travel with a lower velocity than P- or S- waves, but faster than Rayleigh waves. These waves are observed only when there is a low velocity layer overlying a high velocity layer/ sub–layers.
What are two types of body waves?
Body waves are of two types: Primary waves (also called P-waves, or pressure waves) and Secondary waves (S-waves, or shear waves). P-waves are compression waves. They can propagate in solid or liquid material. S-waves are shear waves.
What are 2 types of surface waves?
The two types of surface waves are named Love waves and Rayleigh waves, after the scientists who identified them. Love waves have a horizontal motion that moves the surface from side to side perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling. Of the two surface waves, Love waves move faster.