transverse plane

Examples of transverse plane in the following topics:

• Body Planes and Sections

  • There are three basic reference planes used in anatomy: the sagittal plane, the coronal plane, and the transverse plane.
  • The transverse plane (axial or X-Z plane) divides the body into superior and inferior (head and tail) portions.
  • A longitudinal plane is any plane perpendicular to the transverse plane, while parasaggital planes are parallel to the saggital plane.
  • The coronal plane, the sagittal plane, and the parasaggital planes are examples of longitudinal planes.
  • There are three basic planes in zoological anatomy: sagittal, coronal, and transverse.

• Animal Body Planes and Cavities

  • A sagittal plane divides the body into right and left portions.
  • A frontal plane (also called a coronal plane) separates the front (ventral) from the back (dorsal).
  • A transverse plane (or, horizontal plane) divides the animal into upper and lower portions.
  • This is sometimes called a cross section; if the transverse cut is at an angle, it is called an oblique plane .
  • The frontal plane divides the front and back, while the transverse plane divides the body into upper and lower portions.

• Abdominopelvic Regions

  • These quadrants are defined by the intersection of the saggital plane with the umbilical plane (the transverse plane through the navel).
  • The right upper quadrant contains the right portion of the liver, the gallbladder, right kidney, a small portion of the stomach, the duodenum, the head of the pancreas, portions of the ascending and transverse colon, and parts of small intestine.
  • The left upper quadrant is the location of the left portion of the liver, part of the stomach, the pancreas, left kidney, spleen, portions of the transverse and descending colon, and parts of the small intestine.
  • These divisions are marked by two parasagittal and two transverse planes centered around the navel.
  • It also contains the transverse colon (the section between the ascending and descending colons) and the bottom portions of both the left and right kidney.

• Transverse Waves

  • If a transverse wave is moving in the positive x-direction, its oscillations are in up and down directions that lie in the y–z plane.
  • Light is an example of a transverse wave.
  • Here we observe that the wave is moving in t and oscillating in the x-y plane.
  • In the figure we observe this motion to be in x-y plane (denoted by the red line in the figure).
  • Examples of transverse waves include seismic S (secondary) waves, and the motion of the electric (E) and magnetic (M) fields in an electromagnetic plane waves, which both oscillate perpendicularly to each other as well as to the direction of energy transfer.

• Energy Transportation

  • Electromagnetic waves can be imagined as a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields .
  • Electromagnetic waves can be imagined as a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields.
  • This 3D diagram shows a plane linearly polarized wave propagating from left to right.

• Water Waves

  • Water waves can be commonly observed in daily life, and comprise both transverse and longitudinal wave motion.
  • The uniqueness of water waves is found in the observation that they comprise both transverse and longitudinal wave motion.
  • In the case of monochromatic linear plane waves in deep water, particles near the surface move in circular paths, creating a combination of longitudinal (back and forth) and transverse (up and down) wave motions.
  • This is a result of the wave having both transverse and longitudinal properties.
  • The wave can be thought to be made up of planes orthogonal to the direction of the phase velocity.

• What Are Conic Sections?

  • If the plane is parallel to the generating line, the conic section is a parabola.
  • Below, four parabolas are graphed as they appear on the coordinate plane.
  • Below, a typical ellipse is graphed as it appears on the coordinate plane.
  • The transverse axis is also called the major axis, and the conjugate axis is also called the minor axis.
  • Each conic is determined by the angle the plane makes with the axis of the cone.

• Forces in Two Dimensions

  • When two forces act on a point particle, the resulting force or the resultant (also called the net force) can be determined by following the parallelogram rule of vector addition: the addition of two vectors represented by sides of a parallelogram gives an equivalent resultant vector which is equal in magnitude and direction to the transversal of the parallelogram.
  • Free-body diagrams of an object on a flat surface and an inclined plane.

• Longitudinal and Transverse Waves

  • Most kinds of waves are transverse waves.
  • In a transverse wave, as the wave is moving in one direction, it is creating a disturbance in a different direction.
  • But sound waves are not transverse.
  • This is very difficult to show clearly in a diagram, so most diagrams, even diagrams of sound waves, show transverse waves.
  • In water waves and other transverse waves, the ups and downs are in a different direction from the forward movement of the wave.

• Ellipses

  • In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve that results from the intersection of a cone by a plane in a way that produces a closed curve .
  • Circles are special cases of ellipses, obtained when the cutting plane is orthogonal to the cone's axis.
  • The cardboard is the "plane" in our definition, the thumbtacks are the "foci," and the string length is the "constant distance."
  • The distance between antipodal points on the ellipse, or pairs of points whose midpoint is at the center of the ellipse, is maximum along the major axis or transverse diameter, and a minimum along the perpendicular minor axis or conjugate diameter.
  • One definition of an ellipse is the intersection of a cone with an inclined plane.