This is any disturbance that transmits energy through matter or empty space.
What is a wave?
100
These are waves that need a medium.
What are mechanical waves?
100
This is the highest point of a transverse wave.
What is the crest?
100
This the maximum distance that the particles of a medium vibrate from their rest position.
What is the amplitude?
100
The frequency of eighteen waves in six seconds.
What is 3 Hz?
200
This is the substance through which a wave can travel.
What is a medium?
200
A transverse wave and a longitudinal wave can combine to form this other type of wave that looks like a transverse wave although the particles in it move in circles.
What is a surface wave?
200
This is the lowest point of a transverse wave between each crest.
What is the trough?
200
This is the distance between any two crests, troughs, compressions, or rarefactions.
What is the wavelength?
200
The wave speed of a wave with a wavelength of 2500 cm and a frequency of 5 Hz.
What is 5 m/s?
300
This does not travel with the wave.
What is matter?
300
These are waves that can transfer energy without going through a medium.
What are electromagnetic waves?
300
This is the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles are crowded together.
What is compression?
300
This is the number produced in a given amount of time.
What is the frequency?
300
Electromagnetic waves are always this type of wave.
What is transverse wave?
400
This is transmitted by a wave.
What is energy?
400
These are waves in which the particles vibrate in an up-and down motion.
What are transverse waves?
400
This is the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles are spread apart.
What is rarefaction?
400
This is the speed at which a wave travels.
What is wave speed?
400
Sound waves are always this type of wave.
What is mechanical wave?
500
Light is a type of this.
What is wave/ electromagnetic wave?
500
These are waves in which the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the path that the wave moves.
What are longitudinal waves?
500
This is the position where a transverse wave would be if there was no movement.
What is the rest position?
500
This formula is used to calculate wave speed.
What is v=Λ x f (wave speed= wavelength x frequency)?
500
The frequency and wavelength of a wave always depend on this.