in a wave, the thing that is actually transferred from one plance to another is?
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only energy is transferred.  Think about it - if you're in the  ocean and a wave comes by, you bob up and down but aren't swept away.
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Kinetic energy is the actual amount of energy in an object. In this case, it would be water.\n\nThe faster a stream flows, the more sediment it can carry. This is called the stream's carrying capacity or load.\n\nAlso, when a stream flows faster, it can pick up objects that are of larger size & heavier. It can deposit these larger items further downstream than if the stream was moving slower.\n\nWhen a stream slows down, it will lose it capacity to carry it's load & the sediments will start dropping out of the water. They are then deposited in the streambed.\n\nStreams that move faster are more likely to cut into their bed, making the stream deeper over time.\n\nHope this helps.\n\n:)
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Any electromegnetic wave, be it light, electricity or x-rays, travels in a wave which has amplitude and wavelength.  For every electromagnetic wave, there is also created a magnetic wave that travels along with it.  If the light wave is going up and down, the magnetic wave will br traveling side to side.  This is the basis for the incredibly simple device, the electromagnet.  If you wind copper wire around a tube, and then pass a current through it, the electricity flows, but also creates a magnetic wave, which will be attracted to iron in the same way a regular magnet would.
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The Sea. The sea can make a ship float but not a pin.
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Sending information through water molecules....\nWell, I suppose you could send an electric current as a signal through the water (providing some type of electrolyte is present), this could be a way of sending information.\nWater molecules are constantly moving/sloshing around, getting mixed up.  If you try to arrange the molecules a certain way in order to send information, they wont stay like that long.
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First wave start big but didnt hit shore.\nSecond is still on its way shore.\nStarted small. Gaining strenth
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definitely not true. it just appears that way because it hits the water and disperses before you can really notice it but if you watch its there.
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they are all ways to exchanging substances across a membrane.  \n\ndiffusion is moving down the concentration gradient.  \n\nosmosis is simply the diffusion of water.  \n\nactive transport can be with or against the concentration gradient, but it requires energy from the cell to transport the substance across the membrane.
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None, but the transfer of energy is more correct.
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It could also be the wind going in different directions pushing the top layer of the water in different directions which in turn, gives you different reflections which can appear to be separated.
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Waves are space-time periodic objects.\n\nYour case: A sin(wt - kx) describes a planar wave, where A is the amplitude and φ(x, t) = wt - kx is the phase.\nFor a fixed time t (e.g. t=0) you have a freezed sin wave in space:\n\nA sin(-kx)\n\nA certain point x in space (e.g. x=0) oscillates over time:\n\nA sin(wt)\n\nSince w and k are arbitrary constants you can write the phase:\n\nφ(x, t) = wt - kx \n\nor\n\nφ(x, t) = kx - wt\n\nWhat counts is the movement of wave fronts (points of constant phase):\n\nφ(x, t) = kx - wt = const <=> x =  const/k + wt/k\n\nφ(x, t) = wt - kx = const <=> x = -const/k + wt/k\n\n ==> v = dx/dt = w/k (phase velocity)
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when light moves from 1 medium to another..say air to water..it changes in its speed...this change in speed leads to a change in the direction of the light.
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The movement of an electron from one place to another.
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It's an imaginary line that connects the points at which a drop of water would flow either east or west, to the atlantic or pacific ocean.    Dump a bucket of water east of the line, it goes to the Atlantic.  Dump it west of the line, it's heading for the Pacific.
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electricity or power obtained from moving water\nmainly from dams and tide power plants
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There are three ways that thermal energy can be transmitted. (1) By radiation of photons. The photons are absorbed by materials and transfer their kinetic energy to the materials. (2) By convection in liquids and gases. The molecules of the fluid have kinetic energy depending upon their temperature. This energy of motion is transferred  to adjacent molecules.  Also as fluids heat up their density decreases and they rise against gravity in a motion called convection.  (3) By conduction in materials.  As the molecules of the material heat up, their kinetic energy of motion is transferred to adjacent molecules by collision.
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transmission of shock waves across a boundary between matter/states causes a net loss of energy in the resultant shockwave. thus only high energy shock waves from under water will result in a shock wave transmiting into the air above. any shock waves with less energy than the threshold requirement of the boundary (defined by the properties of the 2 substances either side of the barrier,) will be reflected back inside the matter/state of its origin. also, refraction of the shock wave accross a state boundary - in much the same way as light passing through a prism, will split the wave into a number of waves of specific frequency and amplitude, thus accounting for the net energy transmitted. only some of these resultant waves are likely to be audible to human ears.