Wave Properties
What is the distance between two wave crests called?
What is wavelength?
Sound is an example of this type of wave.
What is a mechanical wave?
A wave bouncing off a surface is called:
What is reflection?
This increases when you stir a solution.
What is the rate of dissolution?
What causes the change in pitch of a passing siren?
What is the Doppler Effect?
What property of a wave increases when amplitude increases?
What is energy?
Electromagnetic waves are always this type of wave.
What is a transverse wave?
A wave changing direction when entering a new medium is:
What is refraction?
Increasing this causes solid solutes to dissolve faster.
What is temperature?
The higher the pitch of a sound, the higher its ______.
What is frequency?
In electromagnetic waves, energy increases as this increases.
What is frequency?
Mechanical waves require this to travel.
What is a medium?
When two waves meet and combine, it's called:
What is interference?
Increasing this exposes more solute to the solvent.
What is surface area?
Light bends in water due to this phenomenon.
What is refraction?
Which formula connects wave speed, frequency, and wavelength?
What is c = λ × f?
This type of wave can be both transverse and longitudinal.
What is a mechanical wave?
The bending of a wave around a barrier is:
What is diffraction?
What two factors increase rate but NOT solubility limit?
What are surface area and agitation?
This causes sound to bend around corners.
What is diffraction?
What kind of wave doesn't need a medium to travel?
What is an electromagnetic wave?
Give one example of an electromagnetic wave.
What is light, radio, X-ray, etc.?
Interference that cancels waves out is called:
What is destructive interference?
What decreases the solubility of gas in liquids?
What is increasing temperature?
What property changes in a wave during the Doppler Effect?
What is frequency (or pitch)?