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The waves produced by motor boat sailing on water are

Solve this multiple-choice question and check the correct answer with its explanation below.

Answer options

  1. transverse
  2. longitudinal
  3. longitudinal and transverse
  4. stationary

Correct answer and explanation

Correct answer: longitudinal and transverse

Explanation: āœ… Correct Answer: C) longitudinal and transverse šŸ“š Explanation: A motorboat sailing on a body of water produces two distinct types of waves simultaneously. The disturbance traveling through the air and within the compression layers of the liquid is a longitudinal wave, while the visible ripples moving across the surface are transverse waves. This occurs because the boat interacts with both the surface tension and the bulk volume of the fluid. It serves as a standard physics example of dual wave generation in a single mechanical event.