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A slowly moving engine bumps into a string of railroad cars standing on siding. A wave pulse is transmitted down the string of cars as each one bumps into the next one. What kind of wave is this?
Transverse or Longitudinal?

Wouldn't it be longitudinal
4 years ago

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oobleck
yes
the cars move in the direction of the wave
4 years ago

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