Mechanical Waves
A wave that can travel only through matter.
What is mechanical wave?
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The distance from one point on a wave to the same point on the next.
What is wavelength?
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The transfer of energy by a wave to the medium through which it travels.
What is absorption?
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Light waves, radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, and ultraviolet.
What is the types of electromagnetic waves?
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Occurs when waves that overlap combine, forming a new wave.
What is interference?
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These waves can travel through solids, liquids, and gases.
What is a mechanical wave?
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Travel faster as the temperature of the medium increases.
What is mechanical waves?
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Happens at the surface of a black car.
What is absorption?
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Gives off electromagnetic waves.
What is every object?
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Causes the water waves to travel around the edges of the object and to spread out after they travel through the opening.
What is diffraction?
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Makes the particle in a medium move parallel to the direction that the wave travels.
What is a longitudinal wave?
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The SI unit for frequency.
What is Hertz (Hz)?
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True or False
Dark clothes and materials absorb more electromagnetic waves than light clothes and materials.
What is true?
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A waves that can travel through empty space and through matter.
What is electromagnetic wave?
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The waves are about the size of a doorway and spread out when they travel.
What is sound waves?
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True or False
When moving a rope up and down and you immediately stop the rope goes straight immediately.
What is false?
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The equation of wave speed.
What is wave speed=frequency x wavelength?
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Light waves can pass through plastic wrap because it only absorbs a little amount of the waves energy. The light that passes through an object.
What is transmission?
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Electromagnetic waves that carry energy and are from the sun.
What is radiant energy?
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The change in direction of a wave that occurs as the wave changes speed when moving from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
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Sound waves, water waves, and seismic waves are considered what type of waves.
What are mechanical waves?
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Waves that travel fastest in solids and slowest in gases.
What is mechanical waves?
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Can be reflected by matter or they can change direction when they travel from one material to another.
What is waves?
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From Greek elektron, means "amber" and magnes, means "lodestone".
What is electromagnetic?
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The angle between the direction of the reflected wave and the normal.
What is the angle of reflection?
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