Orthodox science and engineering recognize several wave forms or wave motions: Compression Wave (same as a Longitudinal Wave), Transverse Wave (90° to the Longitudinal Wave) and Rayleigh Wave or Love Wave (circular motion 90° to the previous two). Other models of wave activity include the use of metaphors such as coiled springs that compress and expand, pendulums swinging to and fro and various oscillating bodies such as cylinders in pistons, seesaws, water waves and floating corks. Any good text book on vibration or oscillation will cover some or all of these metaphors and the corresponding mathematics describing same.

Figure 8.3 - Conventional View of Wave Motion - Coiled Spring showing Longitudinal Wave

Figure 8.4 - Transverse Wave

See Also

12.05 - Three Main Parts of a Wave
16.06 - Electric Waves are Sound Waves
3.8 - There are no Waves
3.9 - Nodes Travel Faster Than Waves or Light
8.3 - Conventional View of Wave Motion
8.4 - Wave types and metaphors
8.5 - Wave Motion Observables
8.6 - Wave Form Components
8.8 - Water Wave Model
9.2 - Wave Velocity Propagation Questions
9.30 - Eighteen Attributes of a Wave
9.31 - Oscillatory Motion creating Waveforms
9.34 - Wave Propagation
9.35 - Wave Flow
Compression Wave Velocity
Compression Wave
Curved Wave Universe of Motion
Dissociating Water with Microwave
Figure 12.10 - Russells Locked Potential Wave
Figure 12.12 - Russells Multiple Octave Waves as Fibonacci Spirals
Figure 13.13 - Gravity Syntropic and Radiative Entropic Waves
Figure 14.07 - Love Principle: Two sympathetic waves expanding from two points have one coincident centering locus
Figure 6.10 - Wave Dynamics between Cube Corners
Figure 6.9 - Russell depicts his waves in two ways
Figure 7.1 - Step 1 - Wave Vortex Crests at Maximum Polarization
Figure 8.1 - Russells Painting of Wave Form Dynamics
Figure 8.10 - Each Phase of a Wave as Discrete Steps
Figure 8.11 - Four Fundamental Phases of a Wave
Figure 8.14 - Some Basic Waveforms and their constituent Aliquot Parts
Figure 8.2 - Compression Wave Phase Illustration
Figure 8.3 - Coiled Spring showing Longitudinal Wave
Figure 8.4 - Transverse Wave
Figure 9.10 - Phases of a Wave as series of Expansions and Contractions
Figure 9.11 - Compression Wave with expanded and contracted Orbits
Figure 9.13 - Wave Flow as function of Periodic Attraction and Dispersion
Figure 9.14 - Wave Flow and Phase as function of Particle Rotation
Figure 9.15 - Wave Flow and Wave Length as function of Particle Oscillatory Rotation
Figure 9.5 - Phases of a Wave as series of Expansions and Contractions
Figure 9.9 - Wave Disturbance from 0 Center to 0 Center
In the Wave lies the Secret of Creation
Longitudinal Wave
Longitudinal Waves in Vacuum
Matter Waves and Electricity
Nodal Waves
One More Step Toward Building The Cube-Sphere Wave-Field
Quantum Entanglement
Rayleigh Wave
Shock Wave
Sympathetic Oscillation
Sympathetic Vibration
Table 12.02.01 - Wavelengths and Frequencies
Three Main Parts of a Wave
Transverse Wave
Wave Field
Wave Fields - Summarize and Simplify
wave number
wave
WaveLength