Vocabulary
What is a disturbance that travels through matter or space, carrying from one place to another without carrying matter along with it.
Wave
What kind of wave has particles that vibrate at right angles to the direction of the wave?
Transverse Wave
What do all waves carry energy in?
Form of light, sound, heat, and motion.
What are waves of vibrating electric and magnetic fields?
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
What are waves that travel through water called?
Mechanical waves.
What kind of wave vibrates back and forth in the same direction that the wave is moving?
Longitudinal wave
What are disturbances in a substance that carries energy form one place to another without taking the substance itself?
Mechanical waves
What do electromagnetic waves carry?
Radiant Energy
The energy stored in an object.
What is Potential Energy?
What is the highest part of a wave called? What is the lowest part of a wave called?
Crest and trough
What are the two features with the particles of a longitudinal wave?
Compression & Rarefaction
Is there a relationship among the speed, wavelength, and frequency of a wave?
YES!
What are the six types of waves on the spectrum?
Gamma rays and x rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, infrared waves, microwaves, radio waves.
The energy stored in a deformed and stretched rubberband
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
the substance through which a wave can travel
What is a Medium
How does the vibration of particles differ between transverse and longitudinal waves?
Transverse wave particles vibrate at right angles. In a longitudinal wave the particles vibrate back and forth in the same direction of the wave.
If waves keep reaching a shoreline, why doesn't the water build up at the shore?
When they reach the surface the waves form a third wave that travel on the surface of water.
What is the difference between reflection and refraction?
Reflection is the bouncing of light waves off of a surface. Refraction is the bending of a light wave when it passes from one medium to another.
The energy stored in food, fuel, firewood, and batteries
What is Chemical Potential Energy
The Law of Conservation of Energy states...
energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed.
What is the number of crests or compressions that pass a certain amount of time?
Frequency
What type of wave can cause destruction?
Tsunami
Verbally describe transparent, opaque, and translucent substances.
The energy stored in the height of an object
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?