What are the two types of body waves write
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Answer:
Body waves are of two types: Primary waves (also called P-waves, or pressure waves) and Secondary waves (S-waves, or shear waves). P-waves are compression waves. They can propagate in solid or liquid material.
Explanation:
There are two broad classes of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel within the body of Earth. They include P, or primary, waves and S, or secondary, waves.
P waves cause the ground to compress and expand, that is, to move back and forth, in the direction of travel. They are called primary waves because they are the first type of wave to arrive at seismic recording stations. P waves can travel through solids, liquids, and even gases.
S waves shake the ground in a shearing, or crosswise, motion that is perpendicular to the direction of travel.
These are the shake waves that move the ground up and down or from side to side. S waves are called secondary waves because they always arrive after P waves at seismic recording stations. Unlike P waves, S waves can travel only through solid materials.
After both P and S waves have moved through the body of Earth, they are followed by surface waves, which travel along Earth’s surface. Surface waves travel only through solid media. They are slower-moving than body waves but are much larger and therefore more destructive.
The two types of surface waves are named Love waves and Rayleigh waves, after the scientists who identified them.
Love waves have a horizontal motion that moves the surface from side to side perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling. Of the two surface waves, Love waves move faster.
Rayleigh waves cause the ground to shake in an elliptical pattern. This motion is similar to that observed in ocean waves. Of all the seismic waves, Rayleigh waves spread out the most, giving them a long duration on seismograph recordings.