If you have ever done "the wave" at a football or a basketball game you have been a part of a transverse wave! ("The wave" is a special example of a traveling wave called a pulse, in that every part o...If you have ever done "the wave" at a football or a basketball game you have been a part of a transverse wave! ("The wave" is a special example of a traveling wave called a pulse, in that every part of the medium that supports the wave does not always wave.) Note that the individual particles that make up the string go up and down, yet do not move in the x direction (just as during the wave you just stand up and then sit down).
