Wave Definition
Water waves, light waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves, mechanical waves
A transverse wave
What type of wave is a water wave?
Frequency = Wavelength x Speed
How do you calculate the frequency of a wave?
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
What are the 2 main types of waves?
A harmonic is a wave or signal whose frequency is an integral (whole number) multiple of the frequency of the same reference signal or wave
What is a harmonic wave?
A transverse and longitudinal wave
What types of waves are earthquake waves?
Speed = Wavelength x Frequency
How do you calculate the speed of a wave?
A motion in which all points on a wave oscillates along paths at right angles to the direction of the wave's advance.
What are transverse waves?
Wavelength, Wave Crest, Wave Trough, Wave Amplitude, Wave Speed, Wave Frequency
What are at least 5 components of a wave?
A long high sea wave that is caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
What is a tsunami?
Wavelength = Speed : Frequency
How do you calculate, the length of a wave/the wavelength?
They are waves where the displacement of the medium is in the same direction as the direction of the travel of the wave.
What are longitudinal waves?
It is the distance from the max point and lowest point of a wave.
What is amplitude in waves?
What is a sound wave?
If a 3-meter wave is going at a speed of 20m/s, what is the wave's frequency?
Sound waves, P-type earthquake waves, compression waves, ultrasound waves, tsunami waves
What are examples of longitudinal waves?
Transverse Waves, Longitudinal Waves, Mechanical waves, Matter Waves, Electromagnetic Waves
What are the types and variations of waves?
They are forms of moving energy made of tiny microscopic particles called photons. They are also electromagnetic waves because they make up what is known as the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is a light wave?
A boat has recently been hit by a wave that is going at a speed of 27m/s and a frequency of 9 Hertz.
What is the length of that wave?
Water waves, Light waves, S-wave earthquake waves, Torsion wave, vibrations on a string
What are examples of transverse waves?