Wave Properties
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
This type of wave requires a medium to travel through.
What is a MECHANICAL WAVE?
THIS IS WHAT waves transfer from one place to another?
WHAT IS Energy?
THIS type of wave is used to send signals to your radio.
WHAT ARE Radio waves?
THIS type of wave is used in mobile phones to send signals?
WHAT ARE Radio waves?
The distance between two crests or two troughs of a wave called
What is the wavelenth?
THIS type of wave can travel through empty space?
WHAT IS An electromagnetic wave?
THIS IS WHAT happens to the energy of a wave as its amplitude increases.
WHAT IS The energy increases?
THIS part of the eye focuses light to form an image.
WHAT IS The lens?
THIS invention uses sound waves to detect objects underwater, like in submarines.
WHAT IS A Sonar?
A property of a wave that is determined by how many waves pass a point in one second.
What is The frequency?
THESE are the two main types of mechanical waves?
WHAT ARE Transverse waves and longitudinal waves?
THESE TYPE PF WAVES ARE THE FIRST GENERATED BY AN EARTHQUAKE.
WHAT ARE P (or Primary) waves?
THIS is the name of the medical imaging technique that uses sound waves to create pictures of the inside of the body.
WHAT IS Ultrasound?
THIS famous scientist discovered that light is made up of different colors, using a prism.
WHO WAS Isaac Newton?
You can calculate it by multiplying the wavelength in meters by the frequency in hertz.
What is the SPEED of a wave?
In a longitudinal wave, THESE are the regions where particles are closest together called?"
These types of waves are called THIS because they come right after the P waves during and earthquake.
WHATARE S (OR SECONDARY WAVES)?
THIS is the technology that uses light signals to transmit information, often used in high-speed internet.
WHAT ARE Fiber optics?
THIS type of electromagnetic wave is used in hospitals to take pictures of bones inside the body.
WHAT ARE X-RAYS?
As this ______happens to the frequency of a wave, the wavelength increases, assuming the speed of the wave remains constant
What is, decreases?
THIS type of wave is created by the combination of transverse and longitudinal wave motions, often seen at the surface of water?"
WHAT IS A surface wave?
THESE TYPES OF WAVES CAUSE THE MOST DAMAGE AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE.
WHAT ARE SURFACE WAVES?
THIS is the process when light is used to produce energy in solar panels. EINSTEIN WON A NOBEL PRIZE because for discovering it.
what is the photoelectric effect (or photovoltaic cell)?
THIS is the name of the groundbreaking telescope that uses infrared waves to look deep into space, launched in 2021.
WHAT IS The James Webb Space Telescope?