Waves I
A disturbance that transfers energy through matter
What is a wave?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
A wave traveling through particles
What is a mechanical wave?
The distance a wave extends from the midline
What is amplitude?
A requirement for a design to be successful
What are criteria?
Two lines that cross to form a right angle
What is perpendicular
Two lines that will never cross
What is parallel?
Not transferred in a wave
What is matter?
The "tops" of a wave
What is a crest?
Data involving descriptions
What is qualitative data?
Transferred in a wave
What is energy?
The substance that a wave travels through
What is a medium?
A student uses their hand to make a wave with a slinky. The medium.
What is the slinky?
The distance from one crest to the next crest or one trough to the next trough
What is wavelength?
Data involving numbers
What is quantitative data?
A wave where energy and matter travel in parallel
What is a longitudinal wave?
A wave where energy and matter move in perpendicular directions
What is a transverse wave?
A single disturbance that does not repeat
What is a wave pulse?
The number of wave cycles that pass a point per second
What is frequency?
A limiting factor on an engineering design
What are constraints?
A wave that has a combination of longitudinal and transverse motion
What is a surface wave?
The pattern an object will move on a surface wave
What is a circular pattern?
The unit for frequency
What are Hertz (Hz)?
The frequency of a wave with a wavelength of 20 m and a velocity of 30 m/s/s/
What is 600 Hz?
How you are going to prepare for tomorrow's benchmark
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