What Are Waves
Mechanical waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to
What is vibrate?
The SI unit for measuring distance.
What is a meter?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave is the wave’s
What is wavelength?
The nickname given to the bridge that collapsed in Washington State in 1940
What is Galloping Gertie?
The interaction between two waves that meet is called
What is interference?
Waves that move the particles of the medium parallel to the direction in which the waves are traveling are called
What are longitudinal waves?
A bus that is slowing to a stop is known to be.
What is accelerating?
The speed of a wave is its wavelength multiplied by its
What is frequency?
As I enter class each day, my first job is to
What is begin my notes slide?
What occurs when vibrations traveling through an object match the object’s natural frequency?
What is resonance?
Mechanical waves are classified according to
What is how they move?
You need one of these to determine if something is in motion.
What is a reference point?
The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move from the rest position is the
The medium used to show Transverse and Longitudinal waves in class was
What is a Slinky?
Waves combine to produce a smaller or zero-amplitude wave in a process called
What is destructive interference?
The more of this a mechanical wave has, the greater its amplitude.
What is energy?
The speedometer in a car shows this type of speed.
What is instantaneous?
Seeing lightning from a distant storm before you hear thunder is due to
What is light travels faster than sound?
Mr. Riddle and volunteers applied energy to a rope tied to a door to demonstrate
What are nodes and antinodes?
In ____________________ interference, the energy of the combined wave is greater than the energy of each of the two waves.
What is constructive?
In a longitudinal wave moving along a spring, areas where the coils are farthest apart are called ____________________.
What are rarefactions?
A Ferris wheel going at a constant speed is always accelerating due to the change in this.
What is direction?
As the frequency of a wave traveling at constant speed increases, its ____________________ decreases.
What is wavelength?
The color will you find in PowerSchool next to an assignment to let you know that you still have time to turn something in
What is yellow?
The crests and troughs of a standing wave are called
What are antinodes?