Types of Waves
These types of waves can travel through space or a vacuum.
What are Electromagnetic waves or light waves?
The distance between any two crests or any two troughs in a transverse wave.
What is wavelength?
When a wave passes through a material.
What is transmission?
What is the term that describes the material through which a wave travels?
What is a medium?
The type of waves that are used with sound?
What are longitudinal waves?
These waves travel in an up and down motion in which the wave travels perpendicularly for the source to its destination.
What are transverse waves?
What is the amplitude?
When a material takes in a waves energy.
What is absorption?
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter
What is a wave?
LIght is this type of wave
What is electromagnetic?
These types of waves move back and forth and the particles move parallel to the wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
The number of waves that pass in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
The area of a longitudinal waves where particles are spread far apart
What is rarefaction?
The term that describes the lowest point of a transverse wave
What is a trough
The wave property that is the best measure of the amount of energy
What is amplitude
The unit that frequency is measured in.
What is Hertz?
When a wave bounces off a surface
What is reflection?
The type of matter through which a wave travels
What is medium?
What is compression?
This type of wave requires a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
The highest point of a wave
What is the crest?
The phenomenon where light bends and spreads out as it passes around the edge of an obstacle or through a narrow opening
What is diffraction?
A wave transfers this from one place to another
What is energy
The terms that describes the interaction of two waves that meet?
What is interference?