Definitions
Questions
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Misc.
100
Cycle
What is The part of Harmonic motion that repeats over and over?
100
Harmonic Motion
What kind of motion is a swing?
100
Oscillations
What do both light and sound come from?
100
When the oscillations move in the same direction as the wave
What is a longitudinal wave?
100
One
In one complete cycle how many wavelengths does the wave move?
200
Linear motion
What is motion from one place to another?
200
Hertz
How is frequency measured?
200
A group we choose that includes all the things we are interested in.
What is a system?
200
When it's oscillations move perpendicular to the wave
What is a transverse wave?
200
When the wave bounces off and goes in a new direction
What is reflection?
300
Oscillator
What is a system that shows Harmonic motion?
300
A measure of change over a single period
What is amplitude?
300
One year
How long does it take the earth to orbit around the sun once?
300
A measure of how often a wave goes up and down.
What is frequency?
300
When the wave can be absorbed and disappears.
What is absorption?
400
Diffraction
What is the process of bending around corners or passing through openings?
400
Period
What is the time for one cycle?
400
1/Frequency
How is period measured?
400
The length of one complete cycle of a wave
What is wavelength?
400
Harmonics
What are fundamental and multiples somethings frequency?
500
Refraction
What is it when a wave bends as it crosses a boundary?
500
Trough
What is the low point of a wave?
500
1/Period
How is frequency measured?
500
How fast the wave can transmit an oscillation from one place to another
What is speed?
500
Constructive interference
What is it called when waves add up to make a larger amplitude?
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