Sound Waves
A quick back and forth movement.
What is a vibration.
Length of a single wave cycle. Measured by the distance between 2 identical points on consecutive waves.
What is a wavelength.
A sound wave is this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal.
The bouncing back of a sound wave off of a barrier creates?
What is an echo.
Sound is a ______________ wave.
What is a Mechanical wave
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch.
The unit of measure for pitch.
What is hertz.
The intensity of a wave tells us the sounds?
What is volume.
A sound wave can not travel through outer space because of the lack of .
What is matter.
Mechanical waves need a ______________ to travel through.
What is a medium.
Sound is measured by this unit.
What is a decibel.
Hight of the wave. The distance between the equilibrium line (resting point) and the crest.
What is amplitude.
The number of wave cycles that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency.
If I wanted to decrease the intensity of a sound I would need to decrease the waves?
What is amplitude (energy)
Kinetic Energy is Energy of ___________.
What is Motion.
Three mediums sound can travel through.
What is gas, liquid, and solid.
Particles move up and down on this type of wave.
What is a transverse wave.
? = wavelength x frequency
What is speed?
An area of low pressure of a longitudinal wave is an area of
What is rarefaction
_________ energy = stored energy
What is potential energy.
Sound travels best through this.
What is a solid.
Particles move back and forth (or side to side) in this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal wave.
An area of high pressure in a longitudinal wave is an area of ?.
What is compression.
What waves transfer
_________ frequency waves have more energy.
What is high frequency.