Waves and a Dog

Todays theme - Waves in Motion. Vibrations creat waves. At Bellos Beach on a nice sun shiny day, pictured to the left, you see a lot of waves or water waves being created and a dog doing whatever dogs do. These waves are transverse waves. The motion of the medium (water) is transverse to the direction of the wave traveling towards shore. Therefore, the actual water is staying in place moving up and down as the wave travels to the shore. Also, the wave is carrying energy and information which could carry a person on either a surf board or a boogie board which is actually a lot of fun. If you look closely, you can see two waves going to meet each other which are like two crest going to create a super crest. But once the waves hit the shore, the vibrations are weak creating a very low frequency and a small wavelength and soon there is no more wave until new sets are created by the wind and new vibrations. As for the dog, he didn't want to go in the water because the waves were too strong and would drown him. He had more fun playing the sand.