The distance from a point on a wave to the same point on the next wave, measured in meters.
What is wavelength?
100
The speed of sound
What is 330 m/s
100
The speed of light
What is 300,000,000 m/s?
100
A 500 Hz wave and a 504 Hz wave will produce this beat frequency
What is 4 Hz?
100
If the wavelength of a wave halves, the frequency ____.
What is doubles?
200
The top of a wave
What is a crest?
200
This part of the wave defines pitch
What is frequency?
200
Electromagnetic waves do not need to travel through this
What is a medium?
200
The period of a 500 Hz wave.
0.002 seconds
200
If the period of a wave increases, the frequency ___.
What is decreases?
300
The distance from crest to mid line, or trough to mid line.
What is amplitude?
300
The reason behind the Doppler Effect
What is sound waves are bunched up as the source of sound approaches, resulting in a higher frequency and therefore pitch. Sound waves are expanded behind the source of sound, resulting in a lower frequency and lower pitch as the source moves away.
300
Young's double slit experiment proved this
What is the wave nature of light by showing interference
300
The speed of sound in water is 1400 m/s. If traveling in a solid, the sound wave would be traveling...
What is faster that 1400 m/s?
300
If the frequency of a wave quadruples, the wavelength _____ and the speed ____.
What is quartered, remains the same?
400
The particles move perpendicular to the direction of the wave movement
What is a transverse wave?
400
Resonance
What is properly timed small impulses adding up to make a much larger amplitude?
400
Three of the five wave behaviors of light, with definitions
What is
reflection - bouncing light
refraction - bending light
diffraction - spreading out light
interference - waves interacting constructively or destructively
polarization - waves vibrating in one plane only
400
A 700 nm light wave has this frequency
What is 4.29X10^14 Hz?
400
A wave is traveling through a 12 m rope. There are 6 full wavelengths.
If the wave changes to now have 4 full wavelengths at the same speed, the wavelength ___, the frequency ___, and the period ___.
What is increased, decreased, increased?
500
The stretched part of a longitudinal wave
What is rarefaction?
500
The reason we hear beats
What is constructive and destructive interference?
500
The electromagnetic spectrum, in order of lowest to highest wavelengths
What is gamma, x ray, UV, visible light, infrared, microwaves, radio waves
500
You see your friend across the parking lot and shout to them. If it takes 0.12 seconds for them to hear you, how far away are they standing?
What is 40.8 m?
500
There is a standing wave in a tube. If the wavelength increases, the number of nodes ___.