Periodic Wave Description: Wave recurring at regular intervals.
Pulse Wave Description: Non-repeating wave.
Longitude Wave Description: Several turns of the spring are compressed and let go. Disturbance is in the same direction as the direction of the travel, “Lengthwise.”
Transverse Wave Description: Spring is pulled sideways (disturbance is at right angle to the direction that the wave will travel).
“Across.”
4 Types of Waves- Physics 11