Types of Waves
Characteristics of Waves
Wave Interactions
Wave Speed
Old Stuff
100
Water surface waves are
What is Transverse and Longitudinal Waves?
100
The highest point of the transverse wave
What is crest?
100
Interference that increases amplitude
What is constructive interference?
100
The speed of sound waves depend on
What is the medium?
100
The happens to the particles of a substance when it condenses
What is particles slow down and clump together?
200
If a transverse wave is moving from right to left, the individual particles in the medium are moving
What is Up and Down?
200
The Doppler Effect is an observed change in a wave's
What is frequency?
200
The bouncing back of a wave when it meets as surface or boundary
What is reflection?
200
Waves travel quickly in a ___________ because the molecules are closely packed and physically bonded together.
What is solid?
200
This is the mass number of an element that has 19 protons, 19 electrons, and 20 neutrons.
What is 39?
300
The ______________ of a longitudinal wave radiates outward from its source, while the particles vibrate back and forth about their original positions.
What is Wave Front?
300
The frequency of a sound wave determines
What is pitch?
300
The bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another at an angle
What is refraction?
300
Calculate the wave speed for a wave with a wavelength of 10 meters and a frequency of 5 Hz.
What is 50 m/s.
300
All matter is made up atoms and molecules that are
What is always in motion?
400
Water waves transport
What is Energy, but no water?
400
The distance from crest to crest is
What is wavelength?
400
The change in direction of a wave when it encounters an obstacle
What is diffraction?
400
The period of a wave with a wave speed of 10 m/s and a wavelength of 100 m
What is 10 seconds?
400
A chemical change occurs whenever
What is a new substance forms?
500
Sound waves require a
What is medium?
500
The maximum displacement of the wave is the
What is amplitude?
500
Interference that decrease amplitude
What is destructive interference?
500
The _____________ is the time it takes for one full vibration of a particle in a medium.
What is period?
500
Type of substance that is a pure substance
What is an element, compound, or molecule?
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