WAVE BASICS
The transfer of energy without transferring matter.
What is a wave?
This wave property determines pitch.
What is frequency?
The bouncing of a wave off a surface.
What is reflection?
An echo is caused by this wave behavior.
What is reflection?
Unlike sound, these waves can travel through a vacuum.
What are electromagnetic waves?
This type of wave requires a medium to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
This wave property determines loudness.
What is amplitude?
The bending of a wave as it enters a new medium.
What is refraction?
This effect explains why a siren changes pitch as it passes by.
What is the Doppler Effect?
Medical imaging often uses these high-energy waves.
What are X-rays?
Sound waves are this type of wave motion.
What is longitudinal?
As amplitude increases, this also increases.
What is wave energy?
The bending of waves around obstacles.
What is diffraction?
Sound requires this to travel.
What is a medium?
These EM waves are commonly used for communication.
What are radio waves?
Light waves are this type of wave motion.
What is transverse?
Sound travels fastest in this state of matter.
What are solids?
When two waves combine to make a larger wave.
What is constructive interference?
Sound cannot travel through this
What is a vacuum?
As frequency increases, wavelength does this.
What is decreases?
This property measures the distance between repeating parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
As frequency increases in the EM spectrum, energy does this.
What is increases?
When two waves combine and cancel each other.
What is destructive interference?
Noise-canceling headphones use this wave principle.
What is destructive interference?
List the EM spectrum from lowest to highest energy.
What is Radio → Microwave → Infrared → Visible → Ultraviolet → X-ray → Gamma Ray?