Light
Light is also known as an electromagnetic wave. What kind of medium can electromagnetic waves travel through that all other waves can't?
What is a vacuum?
The distance from the equilibrium of a wave to a crest or the equilibrium of a wave to a trough
What is amplitude?
Also known as pressure waves, this wave is made up of the compression and refraction of vibrating air particles. This wave is also a longitudinal wave.
What are sound waves?
When two waves' amplitudes cancel each other out, this is known as ______.
What is complete destructive interference?
Mechanical waves can't travel in a _____ while electromagnetic waves can.
What is a vacuum?
Visible light has a spectrum of colors, with particular colors corresponding with particular wavelengths. The longest wavelength of visible light is what color?
What is red?
What is an inverse relationship?
This wave has the longest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum and is used to broadcast music, news programs, and other forms of auditory entertainment to millions of people.
What is a radio wave?
When a wave is fixed at both ends and has a particular frequency, this wave becomes a ______.
What is a standing wave?
What is a wave?
What is the movement of energy?
What is diamond?
If the frequency of a wave increases, unless the medium changes, the ____ of the wave must _____.
What is wavelength? What is decrease?
This wave is an electromagnetic wave and has a wavelength of 10^-12 m.
What is a gamma wave?
When a wave hits a barrier and reflects off of it, the wave's angle of incidence is the ______ as its angle of reflection.
What is the same?
The speed of a wave is measured to be 3 km/s and the frequency is measured to be 20 Hz. What is the wavelength of this wave?
What is 150 m?
When the observed frequency of light from a celestial object is lower than the actual frequency of light waves being omitted from a star, we call this...
What is redshift?
The speed/velocity of a wave does not change unless the _____ changes.
This wave is a seismic wave and the first wave to reach and be recorded by seismographs.
What is a p-wave?
Light travels from air into an optical fiber with an index of refraction of 1.44. In which direction does the light bend?
What is towards the normal line?
What does a light spectrum of an element measure?
What is wavelengths of light that are emitted/absorbed by elements?
(remember that the speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000,000 or 3*10^8 m/s)
What is 6.002*10^14 Hertz? What is blueshift?
What is snell's law?
What is n1sin(theta)1 = n2sin(theta)2 ?
This wave is named after a famous scientist who studied Earthquakes and is known to cause the most damage during Earthquakes.
What is a Raleigh wave? (partial credit for answering what is a s-wave?)
Light travels from air into an optical fiber with an index of refraction of 1.44. If the angle of incidence on the end of the fiber is 22 degrees, what is the angle of refraction inside the fiber?
What is 15 degrees?
An s-wave causes the _____ damage during earthquakes.
What is the most?