Parts of Waves
Wave Speed and Equation
Kinds of Waves
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Potpourri
100
Where a longitudinal wave pulls a medium's molecules apart from each other
What is a rarefaction?
100
A thicker guitar string changes the _________ of the sound making it ___________.
What is pitch and lower?
100
The only electromagnetic wave average humans can see
What is visible light?
100
Waves used to take pictures of bones inside a person.
What are X-rays?
200
The highest point of a transverse wave
What are crests?
200
Equation used to determine the speed of a wave and what is the name of it
What is speed = frequency x wavelength and the universal wave equation?
200
Waves that moves energy perpendicular of it's medium
What are transverse waves?
200
Waves that are mostly used to cook foods in short periods of time
What are microwaves?
200
The greater the amplitude of a wave; the greater the _________ of a wave.
What is energy?
300
The lowest point of a transverse wave
What are troughs?
300
Unit used to measure frequency
What is hertz?
300
Transverse waves that are able to travel through a vacuum
What are electromagnetic waves?
300
Waves with slightly shorter wavelengths than visible light and sometimes cause skin cancer?
What are ultraviolet rays?
300
When a police officer uses radar for speed control, the officer is using what kind of electromagnetic radiation? Explain -be specific
What are microwaves? (Microwaves are part of the Radio Wave Band)
400
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place
What is a wave?
400
The _________ of waves can change when the wave moves from one medium to another.
What is speed?
400
Waves that need a medium to travel through, and that have compression and rarefaction
What are longitudinal waves?
400
A type of wave with a wavelength slightly longer than visible red light and used by your TV remote
What are infrared rays?
400
The speed of sound in water is _______ ______ the speed of sound in air.
What greater than?
500
A point in a longitudinal wave where molecules of the medium are pressed against each other
What are compressions?
500
If a wave is traveling at a certain speed and its frequency is doubled, the wavelength is __________.
What is halved? (cut in half)
500
Waves that are considered both transverse and longitudinal
What are surface waves?
500
2 Part question: a. These waves, in controlled doses, are used to cure cancer. b. Describe the frequency and wavelength of these waves
a. What are gamma rays? b. What are waves with highest frequency and shortest wavelengths?
500
2 Part question: a. Radios and televisions use these kinds of waves b. Describe the frequency and wavelength of these waves
a. What are radio waves? b. What are lowest frequency and longest wavelengths?
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