Mechanical Waves
Water waves.
What is the name of a wave in water?
The air (gas)
What medium does sound waves mostly go through when you speak?
Lowest part of a wave
what is a trough?
Hertz
what is the unit for frequency?
High frequency
Ripples
What is another word for water waves?
Solids
Which form of matter transmits sound waves the fastest?
highest part of a wave
what is a crest?
Velocity = Wavelength * frequency
What is the Wave Equation?
Low amplitude
what is it called when the wave crest/trough is really close to the midpoint?
The vibration of matter.
What is sound?
matter through which a mechanical wave can travel
what is a medium?
what is the wavelength of a wave?
1 hertz
If x waves happen in x seconds, what is the frequency? x = x
or If the waves are x meters, and the waves travel at x meters/second, whats the frequency?
A slinky
What toy object can represent a longitude wave?
Seismic wave.
What type of wave is an Earthquake?
what can you do to hear a train faster?
distance of the trough to the midpoint/resting point
What is amplitude of a transverse wave?
9349 hertz
if there is 9349x waves in x seconds, whats the frequency?
or If the waves are x meters, and the waves travel at 9349x meters/second, whats the frequency?
Girard Giraffe
who has the highest wave amplitude
Mechanical Waves
what is a disturbance that transmits energy through matter?
Sonar waves
How much waves happen in 1 second
What is frequency
10 cm/h
if a wave has a wavelength of x cm, and a frequency of Y Hertz. What is the wave speed? (and xy = 0.00278)
The Doppler effect
when an ambulance is coming towards you, the sound is high pitched, but when it goes away its low pitched. what is this effect called?