Waves
What is a wave?
A wave is a disturbance that carries energy through matter or space.
How are waves and vibrations related?
What is. Most waves are caused by vibrating objects
What is a transverse wave?
What is. A transverse wave is a wave in which the wave motion is perpendicular to the particle motion
What is amplitudes and wavelengths measurements of?
What is. Distance
What does Miss Lathers/Mrs.Hills teach?
What is. Physical Science
What is a medium?
The matter through which a wave travel.
What particles may cause vibration in electromagnetic waves?
What is. Charged particles
What is a longitudinal wave?
What is. A longitudinal is a wave in which the wave motion is parallel to the particles motion
What does amplitude and wavelength measure in waves.
What is. Amplitude measures the amount of vibration and wavelength measures the distance between two equivalent parts of a wave
What does the kinetic theory explain?
The differences in speed
What are waves that do not require a medium?
Electromagnetic waves
Mass that bounces, up and down or vibrates is called?
What is. A simple harmonic motion
What are surface waves?
What is. Waves in which the particles move both perpendicular and parallel to the direction in which the waves travel.
What is the period of the wave.
What is. The time required for one full wavelength of a wave to pass a certain point.
What do the arrangement of particles in a medium determine?
How well waves travel through it.
What are waves that require mediums?
Mechanical waves
A wave can pass through a series of vibrating objects. True or false?
True
What is a crest?
What is. The highest point of a wave
What do Hertz measure
What is. The number of vibrations per second.
As an ambulance passes why does the sounds of the siren change from a high pitch to a lower pitch?
Motion between the source of the waves and the observer creates a change in observed frequency
What do waves transfer ?
Energy
What do wave particles move like on springs?
Masses
GWhat’s a difference between transverse waves and longitudinal waves.
What is. Transverse waves have crest and troughs waves have compressions and rarefactions
What is the frequency-period equation
What is. F=1/t
What does the interference of sound waves do?
What is, create beats