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What is the difference in a transverse and a longitudinal wave?

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Transverse waves are bigger than longitudinal waves

A transverse wave has crests and troughs and a longitudinal has compressions and rarefactions.

Transverse waves are sound waves and longitudinal waves are light waves.

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A transverse wave has crests and troughs and a longitudinal has compressions and rarefactions.

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