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transverse wave comparison table
Subject has amplitude has location has material has domain has propagation direction is not accelerated by has volume is a kind of has frequency has temperature has quantum behavior has velocity has wavelength carries the force has spin has momentum obey has synonym has extent has mass has definition has charge has angular momentum has period
photon or center of gravity physics electric or magnetic fields transverse waveinversely proportional to the wavelength Bose-Einstein statistics inversely proportional to its momentumelectromagnetism1 uncertainty principleelectromagnetic radiation 0A transverse wave of electric and magnetic fields which can propagate through empty space.0  

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