Definitions
The lowest point on the wave.
What is a trough?
A way in which the medium vibrates at right angles to the direction the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
The maximum displacement of the medium from it's rest.
What is amplitude?
Energy that moves in waves through matter from a vibrating object.
What is sound energy?
These type of waves travel faster than sound.
What is light?
The thunderlike sound produced as a result of the object traveling at or above Mach 1.
What is sonic boom?
A disturbance in matter that transfers energy through the matter.
What is a mechanical wave?
The distance between a point on one cycle of the wave and the same point on the next cycle.
What is a wavelength?
The type of waves that sound travels by.
What are longitudinal waves?
Sound energy causes air to move in this way.
What is oscillate or vibrate back and forth?
An indication of how high or low a sound is, which is primarily determined by the frequency of the sound wave.
What is pitch?
The type of wavelengths that have greater frequencies?
What are shorter wavelengths?
The equation for wave speed>
What is speed = wavelength x frequency?
Sound intensity depends on this part of the wave.
What is the waves amplitude?
The more of this a wave has, the greater it is amplified.
What is energy?
A change in sound frequency caused by the motion of the sound source, motion of the listener; or both
What is the doppler effect?
The matter through which a wave travels.
What is the medium of a wave?
The number of complete cycles in a given time.
What is the frequency of a wave?
The equation for the speed of sound in air.
What is v = (331.5 + 0.6 x T) m/s?
The wavelength and the frequency are related in this way to one another.
What are inversely proportional?
A unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a Hertz?
Source, crests, trough and amplitude are all parts of this.
What are the parts of a transverse wave?
This and wavelength are related to one another through the speed of the wave.
What is frequency?
The four properties that describe waves.
What are speed, wavelenth, frequecy and amplitude?
Another name for a reflective wave.
What is an echo?