Terminology
Behaviors
Equations
Doppler Effect
Misc.
100
The time needed for a wave to repeat itself
What is the PERIOD?
100
This is what happens to the wavelengths of the waves made by dipping your finger in a pond faster and faster.
What is get shorter and shorter
100
The frequency of a wave in Hz if the period is 5 seconds.
What is 0.2?
100
The resulting change in frequency of a car horn as it drives away from you relative to normal
What is lower?
100
Company that used the slogan "Catch the Wave."
What is the Coca-cola company?
200
The distance between two successive identical parts of a wave
What is the wavelength?
200
Plane waves reflect off of parabolic reflectors and do this.
What is converge?
200
The resulting change in period of a wave if you double the frequency
What is cut in half?
200
The Doppler effect is the change in observed frequency of a wave due to this
What is the motion of the source, observer or both?
200
A coordinated mass stadium demonstration of enthusiasm.
What is “the wave”?
300
This is what waves carry
What is energy?
300
This is the name we use to describe the resulting pattern when 2 or more sets of periodic waves meet at the same place at the same time.
What is an interfernce pattern
300
The wavelength of a 1500 AM radio signal.
What is 200 meters? 3E8m/s divided by 1,500,000 Hz.
300
An observer on the ground hears a sonic boom created by a plane overhead traveling at this speed.
What is faster than the speed of sound?
300
Women in the army corp and navy corp during WWII.
What is wacks and waves?
400
constructive interference
What is constructive interference
400
This is the name of the phenomenon of straight waves bending as they pass through narrow openings.
What is diffraction?
400
The speed of a wave with crests 15 meters apart and the time for it to travel one wavelength being 5 seconds.
What is 3 m/s? 15m/3s
400
This follows an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound.
What is a shock wave (or sonic boom)?
400
A 1 to 2 foot wave traveling at hundreds of miles per hour in the open ocean
What is a tidal wave (or tsunami)?
500
This is the wave that has the particles that make up the wave moving in the direction of travel of the wave
What is a longitudinal wave
500
The size of the obstacle relative to the wave's wavelength if there is maximum diffraction.
What is equal to or smaller than?
500
The wavelength of a wave that has 3 up and down motions each second while traveling 5 meters in one second.
What is 5/3 meters (or 1.67 m)?
500
The effect on the speed of the sound wave made by a car rapidly approaching you blowing its horn.
What is none? Speed stays the same.
500
It refers to a region on the northern coast of Oahu where they do some cool surfin' in the winter, dude.
What is the pipeline?
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