{"id":35011,"date":"2018-06-12T18:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35011"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:12:40","slug":"earth-science-geology-p-waves-and-s-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/earth-science-geology-p-waves-and-s-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth science, geology: p-waves and s-waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring earth science, p-waves and s-waves might arise. The tutor gives quick definitions.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background-color: gainsboro; white-space: pre-wrap; padding: 16px;\">\n<h2>p-waves:<\/h2>\n<p>compression waves from a seismic event (eg earthquake). These waves cause the earth to vibrate in their direction of travel. Imagine how a shock-absorber in a car moves: that models a p-wave as it reaches and passes each point.<\/p>\n<h2>s-waves:<\/h2>\n<p>transverse waves from a seismic event: they are similar to water waves you see in a pool.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>P-waves are sometimes called <em>primary<\/em> waves, since they arrive at a distant location before the S-waves (aka <em>secondary waves<\/em>). In fact, primary waves travel about twice as fast as secondary.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Trefil, James, Ph.D., et al. <i>The Changing Earth<\/i>. Evanston: McDougall Littell, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/walrus.wr.usgs.gov\/infobank\/programs\/html\/school\/moviepage\/03.01.19.html\">walrus.wr.usgs.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring earth science, p-waves and s-waves might arise. The tutor gives quick definitions. p-waves: compression waves from a seismic event (eg earthquake). These waves cause the earth to vibrate in their direction of travel. Imagine how a shock-absorber in a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/earth-science-geology-p-waves-and-s-waves\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth science, geology: p-waves and s-waves<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35011"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35076,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions\/35076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}