Vocabulary
Wave definition
What is a disturbance that carries energy, but not matter, from one place to another?
The wave in which particles travel perpendicularly to the way the wave is moving
What is a transverse wave?
Give an example of a mechanical wave
(ex. sound, ripples/water waves, shockwaves, etc.)
Give an example of a longitudinal wave
Mechanical Wave definition
What are waves in which particles of matter move back and forth?
The wave in which the particles move along a path that is parallel to the direction that the wave travels
What are Longitudinal Waves?
Give an example of a medium
Can literally be almost anything particles of energy travel through
Give an example of a transverse wave
(ex. light/electromagnetic waves, waves on a string or rope, etc.)
Medium definition
What is the matter that a mechanical wave travels through?
The wave in which particles move in a circular wave
What is a surface wave?
Give an example of what models are in terms of waves and explain it
Since models are the comparison of a phenomenon to a wave.
(ex. cars in traffic, a crowd jumping up and down in a wavelike motion jumpropes, etc.)
Give an example of surface waves
(ex. ocean/lake waves, force waves, pond ripples, etc.)