Waves
Wave Properties
Wave Interactions
Seismic Waves
Sound Waves
100
What are waves that require a medium through which to travel called?
What are mechanical waves?
100
What is the distance between 2 corresponding parts of a wave called?
What is the wavelength?
100
What does the law of reflection state?
What is the angle of incidence = the angle of reflection?
100
In Japaanes, it's name means "a wave in a harbor".
What is a tsunami?
100
Sound travels through a medium as what kind of wave?
What is a longitudinal wave?
200
What is a wave that moves the medium at right angles to its direction called?
What is a transverse wave?
200
What is the number of waves that pass a given point in a given amount of time?
What is frequency?
200
What is the bending of waves due to a change in speed called?
What is refraction?
200
What are the longitudinal seismic waves called?
What are primary waves or p waves?
200
What is a reflected sound wave called?
What is an echo?
300
What is the ability to do work?
What is energy?
300
What is the unit of measurement of frequency?
What is a hertz?
300
What occurs when two waves combine to form a wave with a smaller amplitude?
What is destructive interference?
300
What are transverse seismic waves called?
What are secondary or s waves?
300
Why can you hear your friends talking in a classroom before you walk through the doorway?
What is diffraction?
400
What are the parts of a longitudinal wave where the particlies are pushed together?
What are compressions?
400
What is the mathematical formula used to calculate the speed of a wave?
What is speed = wavelength x frequency?
400
What occurs when external vibrations match an object's natural frequency?
What is resonance?
400
What instrument is used to measure earthquake waves?
What is a seismograph?
400
What is the speed of sound in air at 20 degrees Celsius?
What is 343m/s?
500
What does the rarefaction in a longitudinal wave correspond to in a transverse wave?
What is a trough?
500
What is the frequency of a wave with a speed of 3m/s and a wavelenght of 0.2m?
What is 15 Hz?
500
What is the name given to a point of zero amplitude on a standing wave?
What is a node?
500
What are surface waves comprised of?
What is a combination of longitudinal and transverse waves?
500
As a sound travels toward you, like a siren, you notice that its pitch changes.
What is the Doppler Effect?
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