Vocabulary
A wave is a distrubance that carriess
What is energy
What is a mechanical wave?
what does amplitude show?
What is how much energy the wave carries?
A shaking rope
True/False: Frequency does NOT change when amplitude changes
What is true?
The highest point on a transverse wave
What is crest
A wave does NOT move __________
What is matter
The distance a wave travels in a period of time
What is wave speed?
A guitar playin g
For sound waves what does frequency sound like?
What is pitch (sound you hear)?
The size of the disturbance a wave causes in its medium
Amplitude
A wave that moves parallel to to the direction the wave travels
What is longitudinal
the distance between the start of one wave cycle and the start of the next wave cycle
what is wavelength
Has a crest and a trough
What is a Transverse Wave?
True/False: Compression and Rarefaction are parts of a transverse wave
What is false
A solid, liquid (water) or gas (air) that a mechanical wave must use.
What is medium?
A wave that moves perpendicular to the direction if travels
What is transverse?
the number of wave cycles that pass a certain point in a given period of time
what is frequency?
Has compression and rarefaction
What is a longitudinal wave?
a representation of a situation which makes important aspects easy to see
What is a model?
This is expressed as a hertz
What is Frequency?
one complete motion of the repeating pattern a wave
what is wave cycle
amplitude and wavelength are ___________ of each other
What is longitudinal or transverse (depending on movement)
Repeated pattern, carries energy but not matter
What is a wave?