What are Waves?
Properties of Waves
Interactions of Waves
More About Waves
Lab Review
100
A wave that requires a medium to travel through.
What is a mechanical wave?
100
The basic properties of waves.
What is amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed?
100
When an object hits a surface and "bounces back>"
What is reflection?
100
The high and low point of a transverse wave.
What is the crest and trough?
100
When a wave reaches an object floating in the water it will...
What is pass underneath it?
200
The material through which a wave travels through.
What is a medium?
200
The maximum distance from the resting point to the crest or trough.
What is amplitude.
200
The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
What is the law of reflection?
200
The parts of the wave where the particles are spread apart and pushed together.
What are compressions and rarefactions?
200
If a waves strikes a barrier head on it will...
What is reflect back in the same direction?
300
A mechanical wave is produced when a source of energy causes a medium to___________.
What is vibrate?
300
The distance between two crests or two troughs.
What is wavelength?
300
The bending of waves due to a change in speed when a wave enters a new medium at an angle.
What is refraction?
300
The more energy a wave has, the greater the____________.
What is amplitude?
300
If a wave strikes a barrier at an angle it will..
What is reflect back at the same angle?
400
Waves that move the medium at right angles.
What are transverse waves?
400
The number of complete waves that pass a certain point.
What is frequency?
400
A wave that bends through an opening or around a barrier.
What is diffraction?
400
The wavelength of a longitudinal wave is the distance between...
What is the middle of two rarefactions or two compressions?
400
When a wave moves through a space in a barrier it will...
What is bend and spread out?
500
Waves that move the medium parallel to the direction the waves travel.
What are longitudinal waves?
500
The unit the frequency of a wave is measured.
What is a hertz?
500
A wave that occurs when two waves are interfering as they pass each other.
What is a standing wave?
500
The frequency of a wave in which 2 complete waves pass a given point every second.
What is 2 waves per second or 2 hertz?
500
The points of zero amplitude on a standing wave.
What are nodes?
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