Waves
Wave Properties
Wave Interactions
Calculations
Grab Bag
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 is it called when two wave fronts meet and their amplitudes add?
What is constructive interference?
100
What is the formula for wave speed?
What is velocity = wavelength x frequency?
100
Sound travels through a medium as what kind of wave?
What is a compressional or longitudinal wave?
200
What is the peak of a transverse wave called?
What is a crest?
200
What is the number of waves that pass a given point in 1 second?
What is frequency?
200
What is the bending of waves due to a change in speed, that occurs when a wave changes mediums, called?
What is refraction?
200
What is the frequency of a wave with a speed of 3m/s and a wavelenght of 0.2m?
What is 15 Hz?
200
Because sound requires a medium in which to travel it is considered what type of wave?
What is a mechanical wave?
300
What does a wave carry?
What is energy?
300
What is the measurement from the rest position to a peak or valley of a transverse wave?
What is amplitude?
300
What occurs when two waves combine to form a wave with a smaller amplitude?
What is destructive interference?
300
If a 16 wavelengths pass a point in 1 second, what is the frequency?
What is 16 Hz?
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 are the parts of a longitudinal wave called that are spread apart?
What are rarefactions?
400
What is it called when a wave bends around a barrier?
What is diffraction?
400
If a wave travelling at 10 m/s has a frequency of 2 Hz, what is the wavelength?
What is 5 m?
400
If your voice has a frequency of 10 Hz and sound travels at 343 m/s, what is the wavelength of your voice?
What is 34.3 m?
500
What is a wave that moves the medium at right angles to its direction called?
What is a transverse wave?
500
How is the wavelength of a compressional wave different from that of a transverse wave?
What is that a compressional wave includes 1 compression and 1 rarefaction whereas a transverse wave includes 1 crest and 1 trough?
500
When you are looking in a mirror, what wave behavior is light exhibiting?
What is reflection?
500
A 100 m wave has a frequency of 2 Hz. What speed is the wave moving at?
What is a 200 m/s?
500
What kind of waves are radio waves?
What are transverse or electromagnetic waves?
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