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Vocabulary
100

You calculate the springe force using _____

What is Hooke's Law?

100

Hertz is the SI unit 

What is frequency?

100

The _____ is highest point above the equilibrium position. 

What is crest?

100
A point in a standing wave that maintains zero displacement.

What is node?

100

The time that it takes a complete cycle to occur.

What is period?
200

A back-and-forth motion over the same path.

What is Simple Harmonic Motion?

200

Meter (m) or radian (rad) is the SI unit.

What is amplitude?

200

A _____ is a wave that consists of a single traveling pulse. 

What is pulse wave?

200

A point in a standing wave at which the largest displacement occurs.

What is antinode?

200

The lowest point below the equilibrium position. 


What is trough?

300

Created Hooke's Law.

Who is Robert Hooke?

300

Maximum displacement from equilibrium. 

What is amplitude?

300
A ______ is wave whose particles vibrate ______ to the direction of the wave motion. 

What is transverse wave and perpendicularly? 

300

Waves are reflected and inverted here.

What is a fixed boundary?

300

Vibration about an equilibrium position in which a restoring force is proportional to the displacement from equilibrium. 

What is simple harmonic motion?

400

Measuring simple harmonic motion consists of three things.

What is period, frequency, and amplitude?

400

They are inversely related. 

What is period and frequency?

400

Water is the ____ for ripple waves in a pond. 

What is medium?

400

Combination of two overlapping waves

What is superposition?

400

A superposition of two or more waves in which individual displacements on opposite sides of the equilibrium position are added together to form the resultant wave. 

What is deconstructive interference?

500

In regards to Hooke's Law, at equilibrium, the spring force and the mass's acceleration become ______.

What is zero?

500

The period of a mass-spring system depends on the _____ and _____. 

What is mass and spring constant?

500

The distance between two adjacent similar points of a wave. 

What is wavelength?

500

The method of summing up the displacements of waves.

What is superposition principle? 

500

For a disturbance to travel, this is needed.

What is medium?

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