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What affects the energy of the wave?
How can we describe a wave?
100
True/False: We can describe a wave by its amplitude, by its wavelength, and by its frequency.
True
100
Disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another
What is Wave
100
_____ the the unit used to express frequency/
What is Hertz
100
For what kind of wave is aplmitude related to the amount of energy the wave carries.
What is a mechanical wave.
100
What are the basic three ways we can describe the wave?
What is By its amplitude, by its wavelength, and by its frequency.
200
True / False: The amplitude or frequency and the energy loss due to spreading affects the energy of the wave.
True
200
The way frequency is expressed
What is Hertz
200
_____ are crests that are drawn as circles or spheres.
What are wavefronts
200
Greater what can also mean greater energy in a given amount of time.
What is frequency
200
As a wave passes, particles in what move up and down or back and forth.
What is the medium
300
True/False: The medium in which it travels and its frequency and wavelength determine the speed of the wave.
What is True
300
The time required for one cycle.
What is Wave period
300
____ affects the speed of which a wave travels.
What is a medium.
300
What are the three things a medium may do
What is warm up, shift, or change in other ways.
300
To measure how far the particles are
What is its amplitude
400
This is an energy wave
False
400
the distance from any point on a wave to an identical point on the next wave
What is
400
The speed at which a wave travels - called ______ - depends on the properties of the medium.
What is wave speed
400
The two main factors that affect wave energy
What is amplitude and frequency
400
To see how far apart identical points are.
What is wave length
How To Describe A Wave
500
This ripple is considered a wave
True
500
a _____ of a wave tells how many cycles occur in an amount of time, usually 1 s.
500
A wave's ________ is a measure of how far the particles in the medium move away from their normal rest position
What is amplitude
500
What affects the speed of a wave?
500
We need to know all these facts so that we can describe a wave.