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Anonymous Fri Jul 8 14:26:38 2022 No.14636383 [View]
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I can only understand longitudinal waves, because, especially for sound waves, it's very intuitive to imagine particles being pushed in one direction, hitting nearby particles, those nearby particles hitting other particles and so on. But for transverse waves? What would compel particles to move like in this gif? Please explain without bringing in electromagnetism

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