Vasco da Gama Bridge, Portugal - 56,381 feet: Lisbon's Vasco da Gama Bridge is the longest in Europe, spanning a total distance of 10.7 miles. Taking three years to complete, the bridge opened for traffic in 1998 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's discovery of the maritime route from Europe to India.
A type of wave that can travel through empty space as well as through matter is electromagnetic wave.
This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. Unformatted text preview: Electromagnetic waves can travel through vacuum. Transverse wave is a type of energy wave in which motion of the particles is perpendicu- lar to the motion of the wave. Wave on a rope and waves on the surface of water are trans- verse.