Most aquatic animals use the jet-stream propulsion in a form of propagating a transverse wave along the body from head to tail. |
Electromagnetic radiation can be polarized and therefore we conclude that electromagnetic radiation must be a transverse wave. |
The water wave, like the violin string, is an example of a transverse wave. |
As for compressional waves, background plasma flow and β conditions are significantly different from the case of transverse wave. |
The ability to be polarized further characterizes electromagnetic radiation as being a transverse wave. |
This discovery led him to the conclusion that light was not a longitudinal wave as previously supposed but a transverse wave. |