TYPES OF WAVES
CHARACTERISTICS OF WAVES
WAVE INTERACTIONS
SOUND
NATURE OF LIGHT
100
A disturbance that transmits energy through matter and space.
What is wave?
100
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
100
The bouncing back of a wave as it meets a surface boundary.
What is reflection?
100
The perceived highness or lowness of a sound, depending on the frequency of the sound.
What is pitch?
100
A particle of light.
What is a photon?
200
The matter through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
200
The lowest point of a transverse wave?
What is a trough?
200
The bending of a wave as it passes an edge or opening.
What is diffraction?
200
Sound consisting of waves with frequencies lower than 20 Hz.
What is infrasound?
200
A system that uses reflected radio waves to determine the distance to and location of objects.
What is radar?
300
A wave that requires a medium.
What is a mechanical wave?
300
The greatest distance that particles in a medium move from their normal position when a wave passes.
What is amplitude?
300
The combination of two or more waves that exist in the same place at the same time.
What is interference?
300
An effect in which the vibration of one object causes the vibration of another object.
What is resonance?
300
A model of light that represents light traveling through space in an imaginary straight line.
What is a light ray?
400
A wave that is caused by a disturbance in the electric or magnetic field. It does not require a medium. Sometimes known as a light wave.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
400
The time required for a complete wavelength to pass through a certain point.
What is period?
400
An interference in which waves combine so that the resulting wave is bigger than the original.
What is a constructive wave?
400
Sound consisting of waves with frequencies higher than 20,000 Hz.
What is ultrasound?
400
The rate at which light or another form of energy flows through a given area of space.
What is intensity?
500
A wave that causes the particals in a medium to vibrate perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
500
The distance that a wave travels through a medium in one second.
What is wave speed?
500
The bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
500
A system that uses reflected sound waves to determine the distance to and location of objects.
What is sonar?
500
An image that forms from a point from which light rays appear to come but actually do not.
What is a virtual image?
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