What are waves?
Highest point in a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
Makes the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
Transfer of energy by a wave to the medium through which it travels.
What is absorption?
Bouncing a wave off a surface.
What is reflection?
This is something that stays the same, regardless of test condition.
What is a constant?
The ability to cause change
What is energy?
Material in which a mechanical wave travels.
What is a medium?
Change in direction of a wave when it travels by the edge of an object or through an opening.
What is diffraction?
Waves that overlap combine to form a new wave.
What is interference?
This is used by scientists to demonstrate something that is too small, too large, or too complex to see in reality.
What is a model?
What is a transverse wave?
Region of a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart.
What is rarefaction?
Maximum distance particles in a medium move from their rest position as waves pass through the medium.
What is amplitude?
Passage of light through an object.
What is transmission?
When you conduct multiple trials of your own experiment.
What is repetition?
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another
What is a wave?
Can travel through empty space and through matter.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
Number of waves that pass by a point each second.
What is frequency?
Pertaining to building or putting parts together to make a whole.
What is constructive?
Explains what is happening in a specific scientific phenomenon, often using math.
What is a scientific law?
Lowest point in a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
Region of a longitudinal wave where the particles are closest together.
What is compression?
Distance from one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection.
What is the law of reflection?
This is the only type of heat transfer that can travel through the vacuum of space.
What is radiation?