General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound
Light
Misc.
100
What is a repeating disturbance that transfers energy?
a wave
100
What is the highest point of a transverse wave?
crest
100
What type of wave are sound waves?
longitudinal (mechanical)
100
What type of waves are light waves?
electromagnetic
100
What is a light year?
The distance light can travel in 1 year.
200
What is the physical environment that waves occur in?
medium
200
What is the lowest point of a transverse wave?
trough
200
What is the measure of how high or how low a wave sounds?
pitch
200
EM waves are this type of wave.
Transverse.
200
What would the frequency by of a beam of light with a frequency of 1.5 MHz or 1.5 x 10^6 Hz?
200m
300
What are waves the require a medium (such as sound)?
mechanical waves
300
What is the distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave?
wavelength
300
What determines how loud or soft a sound is?
amplitude
300
What electromagnetic waves have the highest frequency?
gamma rays
300
Do compression waves travel faster in solids or gases?
Solids.
400
What are waves where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion?
transverse waves
400
What is the distance (how high or how low) particles move from the baseline of the transverse wave?
amplitude
400
What determines the pitch of a sound?
the frequency of the wave
400
What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength?
sound waves
400
Do EM waves oscillate up and down or side to side?
Both. (two transverse waves travel together.)
500
What medium is used for the waves of an earthquake?
earth/dirt
500
What is the measurement of how many waves pass by per second?
frequency.
500
What causes sound waves?
Compressions in a medium
500
What is special about the speed of EM waves?
It is set at 3 x 10^8 m/s.
500
Vertical and a horizontal polarizing filters are put in front of a beam of light. How much light can you expect to see on the other side?
None. (The two directions combine to block all light)
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