Kinetic Energy & Matter
This is the energy that objects and particles possess due to their motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This method involves the transfer of energy through direct contact between objects or particles.
What is conduction?
This is the height of a wave measured from its resting position to the crest or trough.
What is amplitude?
Electromagnetic waves are unique because they can travel through space without one of these, such as air or water.
What is a medium?
This property of a wave is what determines the specific color seen in the visible light spectrum.
What is frequency?
This is defined as the total energy of all the particles within a substance.
What is thermal energy?
When heat is added to a system, particles gain kinetic energy and move in this manner.
What is faster?
This is the transfer of energy through fluids, such as liquids and gases, as particles circulate.
What is convection?
This is the distance between two consecutive crests or troughs.
What is wavelength?
This is the relationship between wavelength and frequency; as frequency increases, wavelength does this.
What is decreases?
Visible light is the only portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that this human organ can detect.
What is the human eye?
When heat is added to a system, it is transformed into this, causing particles to move faster.
What is kinetic energy?
This value measures the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
This method of transfer uses electromagnetic waves and can move through empty space without a medium.
What is radiation?
This is the number of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
Compared to radio waves, gamma rays have this type of wavelength and frequency.
What is a shorter wavelength and higher frequency?
This color of light is located at one end of the spectrum and possesses the longest wavelength and lowest frequency.
What is red?
This transformation occurs when a liquid gains enough kinetic energy for its particles to become less compact and turn into a gas.
What is evaporation?
These are two changes that occur to a substance when the kinetic energy of its particles decreases.
What are the particles moving more slowly and the temperature decreasing?
Thermal energy always transfers between areas in this specific direction.
What is from warmer to cooler areas?
In light waves, a greater amplitude results in this visual change.
What is brighter light?
This is the name for the entire range of electromagnetic radiation, from the lowest frequency to the highest frequency.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
This specific color of light carries the most energy because it has the highest frequency.
What is blue-violet?
This is the resulting transformation when particles lose kinetic energy, move more slowly, and become more compact, turning a liquid into a solid.
What is freezing?
As particles gain kinetic energy, they become less compact, allowing a solid to perform this action into a liquid.
What is melt?
An example of this heat transfer method is warm air rising and cool air sinking.
What is convection?
This type of wave transfers energy in a direction perpendicular to its motion.
What is a transverse wave?
Waves with a higher frequency always carry more of this than waves with a lower frequency.
What is energy?
As you move across the visible spectrum from the red end to the violet end, the amount of energy carried by the waves does this.
What is increases?
This specific form of energy travels at the speed of light and can be transferred through a vacuum via radiation.
What are electromagnetic waves (or light)?