Transverse Vs. Longitudinal Waves
The close segments of a longitudinal wave
What is a compression?
Does not require a medium
What is Electromagnetic?
The lower the pitch the ______ the frequency of a sound wave?
What is lower.
Can sound travel through a vacuum
What is No
the wavelength of a wave is
What is the space from crest to crest or trough to trough?
The lowest part of a transverse wave
What is the crest?
A light wave is an example of
What is electromagnetic?
The higher the pitch, the ____ the frequency of the sound wavelength
What is higher.
Does sound travel faster through a solid or a gas
What is a solid
True or false: The wavelength plays a role in the frequency.
What is true?
The trough of a transverse wave
What is the lowest part of a wave?
The two types of mechanical waves are
What are longitudinal and transverse waves?
True or False: Waves with a lower wavelength have a higher pitch
What is True
True or False: Sound travels faster through denser objects
What is true
Amplitude is
What is the distance from the crest or trough to the resting point of a wave?
the rarefaction of a longitudinal wave
What is the far segments?
Mechanical waves require
What is a medium?
True or False: Volume if associated with amplitude
What is True
Can light travel through a vacuum
What is yes.
Amplitude determines
What is the loudness of a sound?
The amplitude of a sound wave affects
What is the volume?
cannot travel through a vacuum
What are mechanical waves?
True or False: The higher the volume the lower the waves amplitude
What is false
True or False: Light travels faster through denser objects
False
Frequency is
What is how many waves pass per second?