Waves in General
Rhythmic disturbances that carry energy without carrying matter?
What are Waves?
The highest part of a transverse wave?
What is the crest?
The bouncing back of a wave off a smooth surface
What is reflection?
your perception of the energy of a sound
What is loudness?
The range of all EM waves
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
The type of waves that use matter to transfer energy.
The distance between crest to crest or trough to trough in a transverse wave or from compression to compression or rarefaction to rarefaction in a longitudinal wave.
What is wavelength?
The bending of waves due to a change in speed in a new medium
What is refraction?
The unit for measuring loudness
What is a decibel?
A wave can travel through a vacuum or empty space.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
The parts where the coils or particles are spread out in a longitudinal wave.
What is a rarefaction?
What is frequency?
The bending of waves as the move around a barrier or opening and spread out.
What is diffraction?
a description of how high or low the sound seems to a person
What is pitch?
EM wave with the highest frequency and most energy?
What are Gamma Rays?
The material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
The unit of measurement for frequency.
What is Hertz?
a reflective sound wave
What is an echo?
an electromagnetic wave that has the lowest frequency, longest wavelength, and lowest energy.
what are radio waves?
Possible answers: Radio Waves, Microwaves, Infrared Waves, Visible Waves, Ultraviolet Waves, X-ray Waves, Gamma rays
What are Waves in the electromagnetic spectrum?
a word used to describe the amount of energy a wave carries by measuring its height.
What is amplitude?
this type of interference in a wave reduces size and noise.
What is destructive interference?
the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer
What is the doppler effect?