Doing the wave
The height of a wave
What is the amplitude?
The number of complete wave cycles per second
What is frequency?
When two waves overlap and combine
What is interference?
The main resonant frequency
What is the fundamental?
AM radio waves have _________ wavelengths
What is long?
The length of one complete cycle of a wave
What is wavelength?
The type of wave where particles move perpendicular to wave travel
What is a transverse wave?
The bouncing of waves off a surface
What is reflection?
True or false - every instrument of the same type (e.g. a violin) has the exact same set of harmonics
What is false?
A light invisible to humans but visible to other animals
What is ultraviolet light?
What is infrared light?
The duration of one cycle of a wave
What is a period?
the reciprocal of the frequency
What is the period?
When a wave bends as it changes speed entering a new medium
What is refraction?
A wave interacting with its reflection in a medium
What is a standing wave?
He proposed that light actually is a particle
Who is Einstein?
These waves don't need a medium to propagate
What are electromagnetic waves?
the velocity of the wave propagation
What is wavelength times frequency
The angle of reflection equals ______________
What is the angle of incidence?
What is one third?
This describes the unique nature of electromagnetic radiation
What is wave particle duality?
Damien playing his guitar is creating sound (some might say noise - JUST KIDDING!!). He is creating what kind of waves?
What are mechanical waves?
The wavelength of a sound wave from a piano playing E5 is roughly 684Hz and it travels at about 342 m/s.
What is 1/2 of a meter?
This experiment shows the interference of light and therefore its wavelike characteristics
What is the double slit experiment?
Resonance occurs when the dimensions of a medium correspond to an integral multiple of this
What is half the wavelength?
Put these electromagnetic waves into the correct order from long to short wavelengths:
visible light, UV, x-rays, FM radiowaves, microwaves
FM radio, microwaves, visible light, UV, x-rays