Name that Wave
What type of wave requires a medium through which to travel?
What is a mechanical wave?
This is the highest part of a transverse wave, not toothpaste.
What is the crest?
The property of wave related to its energy.
What is amplitude?
What type of heat transfer move in electromagnetic waves or rays?
What is radiation?
Property of a wave that is related to pitch.
What is frequency?
A wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular (right angle) to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is the trough?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave. Example: crest to crest.
What is wavelength?
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
What is the phenomenon which results in an increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other.
*Hint a siren passing you*
What is the Doppler Effect?
What type of waves do not require a medium?
What is electromagnetic waves?
This is the position of the wave if there was no disturbance moving through it.
What is the resting position?
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium.
A measurement from rest position to crest.
What is amplitude?
What type of waves are sound waves?
What are mechanical waves, or longitudinal waves?
What do mechanical waves require?
What is a medium?
A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a longitudinal wave?
Is there a trough or crest in a longitudinal wave?
What is no? They are only present in transverse waves.
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
What are two examples of electromagnetic waves?
Radio Waves.
Micro Waves.
Infrared Rays.
Visible Light.
Ultraviolet.
X rays.
Gamma Rays.
What are examples of mediums?
What is the 3 states of matter?
Gas, Liquid, Solid
Water, air, etc....
What types of waves are present in an earthquake.
What are S and P waves?
How are the wavelength and frequency of a wave related?
They are inversely related as one increase the other decreases and vice versa.
Unit of measurement for frequency.
What is hertz (Hz)?
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
What type of waves move faster, light waves or sound waves?
What are light waves?