Transverse vs Longitudinal
Has a trough and a crest
What is a Transverse wave?
This wave needs a medium to travel through
What is a mechanical wave?
Measured from crst to crest or trough to trough
What is Wavelength?
Sound travels fastest through what medium?
What is a solid?
As the frequency increases, this also increases
What is pitch?
Has a compression in a rarefaction
What wave needs no medium to travel through
Measured from rest to crest or rest to trough
Light travels fastest through what medium?
What is a vacuum?
As amplitude increases, this also increases
What is Volume?
Transverse waves
What are some examples of an electromagnetic wave?
Radio waves, Microwaves, infared, visible light, ultraviolent, x-rays, gamma rays, etc
Measured in Hertz, the amount of waves in a second
What is Frequency?
Why can't sound travel through a vacuum?
Because there are no particles to carry the energy
High and Low
What is Pitch?
Sound waves are this type of wave
Longidutinal waves
When frequency increases, this decreases
What is Wavelength?
Why can light travel through a vacuum?
Because there are no patricles for the light wave to bump into and slow the energy down.
Loud and Soft
What is Volume?
What is an example of a transverse wave.?
Ripples, light waves, vibrations on guitar string, etc
How do mechanical waves move?
Up and down
When frequency increases, this also increases
What is Amplitude?
What does sound travel the slowest through?
True or False: When the wavelength increases, pitch also increases
False