Vocabulary
This is the length of a wave.
What is wavelength?
This is a wave that moves up and down.
What is a transverse wave?
This is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another
This wave moves back and forth.
What is a longitudinal wave?
What is a medium?
This wave requires a medium to travel through.
This is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second. It expresses frequency.
What is a hertz?
This wave is a disturbance in electric and magnetic fields.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
This is a measure of how far the particles in the medium move up and down or back and forth.
What is amplitude?
This wave can travel in a vacuum.
What is an electromagnetic wave?