Properties
This is found by multiplying the wavelength of a wave by its frequency.
What is speed?
The highest peak in a transverse wave?
What is the crest?
What is a wave?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
What is reflection?
This direct measure of energy in a wave.
What is amplitude?
The particle of the medium in longitudinal waves that are close together.
What is compression?
In a __________ wave, the particles of the medium move at right angle or perpendicular to the direction of the wave motion.
What is Transverse Waves?
This is a natural example of a vacuum.
What is outer space?
The bending of waves due to a change in speed.
What is refraction?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
The lowest peak in a transverse waves.
What is trough?
Waves that move the particles of the medium forward and back, parallel to the direction in which the waves are travelling.
What is longitudinal waves?
These waves require a medium to transfer energy.
What are mechanical waves?
The bending of waves around the edge of a barrier.
What is diffraction?
The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move from the rest position of a transverse wave.
What is amplitude?
The position of a transverse wave where no energy is being passed.
What is rest position?
Secondary waves cannot travel through this.
What is liquid?
Waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to_____.
What is vibrate?
The angle of incidence will always equal the angle of reflection.
What is the Law of Reflection?
The number of waves that pass a certain point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
The particles of a medium in longitudinal waves that are spreading apart.
What are rarefactions?
These seismic waves have the lowest amplitude, travel as longitudinal waves, and do the least amount of damage.
What are Primary Waves? (P-waves)
The particles of this wave move in a circular motion.
What are surface waves?
A 90 degree imaginary line used to measure the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection.
What is the Normal?