Types of Waves
Ripples are a type of..?
What is wave?
Mrs. Lathers teaches..
What is physical science?
The greatest distance that partials are displaced from their normal resting position
What is amplitude?
The bouncing back of a wave when it meets a surface or boundary
What is Reflection?
A alternating pattern of loud and soft sounds.
What is Beats?
Waves that require a Medium..?
What are Mechanical Waves?
Most waves are caused by..?
What is vibrating objects?
An ideal transverse wave has the shape of a
What is a Sine Curve?
Bending of waves as they pass an edge
What is diffraction?
Each loop of a standing wave is separated from the next loop by points that have no vibration.
What is nodes?
Consist of changing electric and magnetic fields in space.
What is Electromagnetic Waves?
Sound waves produced by a singer are cause by ?
What is Vibrating Vocal Cords?
Waves that have the shape of a sine curve are called
What is Sine Waves?
Bending of waves when they pass from one medium into another
What is Refraction?
How high or low it is deter you the frequency at which sound waves strike the eardrum in your ear.
What is pitch?
A physical environment in which phenomena occur?
What is a Medium?
When the mass is pulled away for its resting place, the mass-spring system gains..?
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
The distance from one crest to the next crest or from one trough to the next trough is..
What is Wavelength?
Interference between a wave and its reflection wave
What is A Standing Wave?
The change if the observed frequency
What is Doppler effect?
A huge ocean wave that is caused by an earthquake?
What is a tsunami?
Waves that are caused by vibrating charged particles
What is Electrical-magnetic Waves?
The number of wavelengths the pass a point in a given time interval is called..?
What is The Frequency of a Wave?
When the crest of one wave meets the trough of another wave the resulting wave has a smaller amplitude than the larger of the two waves
What is Destructive Interference?
A range of light at different frequencies and wavelengths
What is electromagnetic spectrum?