A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
100
The type of wave that moves the medium at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.
What are transverse waves?
100
The four basic properties of waves.
What are speed, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency?
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
200
The high point of a transverse waves.
What is the crest?
200
The property of a wave that is directly related to energy. It is defined as the maximum distance that particles of the medium carrying the wave move away from their rest position.
What is amplitude?
300
The material through which a wave moves through.
What is a medium?
300
The low point of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
300
The number of complete waves that pass through a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
400
Waves that require a medium to move through.
What are mechanical waves?
400
The type of wave that moves it's medium parallel to the direction in which the waves travel.
What is a longitudinal wave?
400
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave, measured either from crest to crest or trough to trough in transverse waves, or from compression to compression in longitudinal waves.
What is wavelength?
500
Waves that can travel with or without a medium.
What are electromagnetic waves?
500
The two parts of a longitudinal wave.
What are compressions and rarefactions?
500
The distance a wave travels in a given length of time.
Wavelength X Frequency =