The Pen is Mightier
Spring Motion and Oscillations
Wave Motion
Sound
Superposition
100
This famous actor made out with your professor's mother at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1986
Who is David Hasselhoff?
100
The equation describing the force of a displaced spring
What is Hooke’s law?
100
A crowd wave is an example of this type of wave
What is a transverse wave?
100
Sound is an example of this type of mechanical wave
What is a longitudinal wave?
100
The type of wave interference when two waves combine to increase amplitude
What is constructive interference?
200
This type of oven works by circulating hot air
What is a convection oven?
200
A certain type of periodic motion in which the restoring force always returns the particle to the equilibrium position
What is simple harmonic motion?
200
Electromagnetic waves do not require this to propagate
What is a medium?
200
This type of sound has frequencies above the human audible range
What is ultrasonic?
200
The result of two identical wave added to each other 180 degrees out of phase
What is zero (flat line) ?
300
approximately 11 meters per second
What is airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
300
The type of energy in a compressed, stationary spring
What is potential energy?
300
The distance between two successive points that behave identically on a wave
What is wavelength?
300
A logarithmic measure of sound intensity level
What is a decibel?
300
Two oppositely traveling waves can create this result with stationary nodes
What is a standing wave?
400
This man's cat is either dead or alive
Who is Schroedinger?
400
The type of curve traced out by a harmonic oscillator in time
What is a sinusoid?
400
The number of complete wave cycles in a given period of time
What is frequency?
400
A change in perceived frequency experienced whenever there is relative motion between a source of waves and an observer
What is the Doppler effect?
500
The secret to comedy
What is timing?
500
This quantity represents the maximum deviation of a harmonic oscillator from its equilibrium
What is the amplitude?
500
In a longitudinal wave, the amplitude of the curve represents this property of the medium
What is density?
500
An effect that results when the source velocity exceeds the speed of the wave itself
What is a shock wave (or sonic boom)?
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