Aim:

To determine the motion of a transverse wave in a stretched string

Theory:

A transverse wave is a moving wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the wave’s
direction. By fastening one end of the thread and moving the other up and down, a rudimentary
illustration of the wave may be constructed on a horizontal length of string. Another example of
a transverse wave is light, where the oscillations are electric and magnetic fields at right angles
to the ideal light beams that characterise the propagation path.

Transverse waves are prevalent in elastic materials, and oscillations are the displacement of solid
particles from their relaxed state in the direction perpendicular to the wave’s propagation.
Because these displacements correlate to the Material’s local shear deformation

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