Do You Know Your Waves?
Math In The Waves
Do You Still Know Your Waves?
Need To Know Words
Gotta Look At The Waves
100
This type of wave vibrates matter forward and backward in the medium, in the same direction as the wave is moving.
What is a longitudinal wave?
100
A car moves with an average speed of 40 kilometers per hour. What is the time taken by the car to cover 160 kilometers?
What is 4 hours?
100
The number of wavelengths that pass a given point per second.
What is frequency?
100
The distance from crest to crest.
What is wavelength?
100
When two waves join - each coming from opposite directions - and the wave formed has an amplitude smaller than either of the original waves.
Destructive interference
200
This type of wave vibrates matter in the opposite direction from how the wave is moving.
What is a transverse wave?
200
If an ocean wave is moving at 470 miles per hour, how long will it take for the wave to move 1,410 miles away?
What is 3 hours?
200
This is a result of increased disturbances in matter.
What is more frequent waves or an increased wave frequency?
200
The distance from rest to trough
What is amplitude?
200
This is shown as a white line on the wave.
What is the resting position?
300
This type of wave does not need matter to transfer energy.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
300
In dry air, sound travels at 768 miles per hour; this is the distance it will travel in 5 hours.
What is 3,840 miles?
300
The matter that mechanical waves travel through is known as ____________.
What is a medium?
300
When a wave moves to a point and comes back. The wave appears to be standing still in certain points. What are these points called?
Nodes
300
What characteristics does this wave have?
Transverse wave
High amplitude
High frequency
400
High frequency waves have _______ wavelengths.
What are SHORT wavelengths?
400
Sound travels ____ times faster in water than in air.
What is 4?
400
Sound waves will travel best in this kind of matter.
What is a solid?
400
The lowest point of a transverse wave
What is the trough?
400
What allows waves to bend around an object - such as when ocean waves move around rocks near the shore?
Diffraction
500
This is the highest point in a transverse wave.
What is the crest (or peak)?
500
Energy travels _________in waves through gases than any other matter.
What is slowest?
500
The rhythmic disturbance that carries energy, but NOT matter is __________.
What is a wave?
500
Sound travels as this kind of wave
What is a longitudinal wave?
500
This wave has the highest frequency in the image.
What is the pink-purple wave?