Waves
Features of Waves
Behavior of waves
Misc.
Scientific Notation
100
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
100
The highest parts of a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
100
Occurs when waves pass through a given point or medium.
What is transmission?
100
Name the two types of mechanical waves.
What is transverse and longitudinal (compressional) waves?
100
850 in scientific notation
What is 8.5 x 10^2
200
Name the two types of waves.
What is mechanical and electromagnetic waves?
200
The lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
States the angle of incidence (i) of a wave is always equal to the angle of reflection (r).
What is the Law of Reflection?
200
Waves that can travel through a vacuum.
What is electromagnetic waves?
200
40,000,000 in scientific notation.
What is 4.0 x 10^7
300
Mechanical waves transfer energy through?
What is a medium?
300
Number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second.
What is frequency?
300
Bending of wave caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium to another with different densities.
What is refraction?
300
The reflection off of rough surfaces.
What is diffuse reflection?
300
0.0000678 in scientific notation.
What is 6.78 x 10^-5
400
The amount of energy in a wave.
What is amplitude?
400
Distance between one point on wave and similar point nearest to it
What is wavelength?
400
The interaction between two waves that meet.
What is interference?
400
Two wave sets merging together, resulting in combined wave heights.
What is constructive wave interference?
400
6.3 x 10^6 in standard form.
What is 6,300,000?
500
In transverse waves, matter moves in what direction?
What is right angles in the direction the waves travels?
500
Less dense regions of a longitudinal wave.
What is a rarefaction?
500
The spreading out of waves after they pass through a narrow opening.
What is diffraction?
500
Waves combine to produce a smaller or zero-amplitude wave in a process called _____.
What is destructive interference?
500
3.502 x 10^-4 in standard form.
What is 0.0003502
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