Section 1 Vocabulary
A disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place.
What is a Wave?
The maximum distance the medium vibrates from its rest position.
What is Amplitude?
Give an example of where liquid waves are made.
Wave pool, Ocean, Lake, Pool.
Speed = Wavelength x _________________.
Frequency.
The material through which waves travel.
What is a Medium?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is Wavelength?
An example of a wave in a gaseous state?
Light (Sun, Classroom lights, Flashlights) Sound (Music, Thunder, Microphones)
Define energy.
The ability to do work.
Repeated back and forth or up and down motion.
What is Vibration?
The number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is Frequency?
An example of a wave in a solid.
Earthquakes (Seismic Waves)
What is the difference between a Compression and a Rarefaction?
A compression is where particles are pressed together a Rarefaction is where they are spread apart.
A wave that vibrates the medium at right angles, or perpendicular, to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a Transverse Wave?
What are Hertz?
An example of a surface wave?
A bottle floating on a wave in the ocean, A duck in a lake, a boat on a lake or a tube on a lake.
The four properties of a wave.
What are Amplitude, Wavelength, Frequency & Speed.
A combination of transverse and longitudinal waves. This type of wave travels along a surface that separates two mediums.
What is a Surface Wave?
How far a wave travels in a given amount of time?
What is the Speed of a Wave?
How do modern wave pools generate their waves?
Through the use of large blowers that push air into a chamber thus forcing water out of that chamber creating waves.
The three types of Mechanical Waves.
What are Transverse, Mechanical & Surface Waves?