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What Are Waves?
Properties of Waves
Interactions of Waves
Miscellaneous
Ways to Remember the Info
100
Waves that move the medium parallel to the direction in which the waves travel.
What is longitudinal waves.
100
You can find this property by measuring the distance from crest to crest.
What is wavelength.
100
The bouncing back of an object or wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.
What is reflection
100
Frequency, amplitude, speed and wavelength are 4 ____________________ of waves.
What are properties.
100
Thinking of the "t" in transverse as a right angle will help you remember...
Waves move across a transverse angle at a right angle.
200
Waves that move the medium at right angles, or "across", the direction in which the waves travel.
What is transverse waves.
200
The number of complete waves (a crest and a trough) that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency.
200
The bending of waves as they move around a barrier or pass through an opening.
What is diffraction
200
Solids, liquids, and gases are examples of ______________ .
What are mediums.
200
Thinking of the crest of the moon will help you remember...
the crest of a transverse wave is on top.
300
A repeated back-and-forth or up-and-down motion.
What is vibration.
300
You can find the ____________________ of a transverse wave by measuring the distance from the rest position to a crest or to a trough.
What is amplitude
300
The bending of waves due to a change in speed.
What is refraction
300
Which types of waves DO NOT need a medium through which to pass?
What are electromagnetic waves.
300
What might help you remember that diFFraction is the bending of waves as they move around a baRRier or paSS through an opening?
Remember the double consonants.
400
The top of a transverse wave.
What is crest.
400
You can find the ______________________ of a longitudinal wave by measuring how compressed or rarefied it is.
What is amplitude
400
An interaction between waves that meet when the waves combine to make a wave with a smaller amplitude.
What is destructive interference
400
The unit used to measure frequency is:
What is Hertz (Hz)
400
"Coils which RARELY are close to each other" may help you remember what part of a longitudinal wave?
What is rarefaction.
500
The part of a longitudinal wave where the coils are very close together.
What is compression.
500
To measure the speed of a wave you multiply:
What is wavelength times frequency
500
An interaction between waves that meet when the waves combine to form a wave with a larger amplitude.
What is constructive interference
500
An increase in the amplitude of a vibration that occurs when external vibrations match an object's natural frequency.
What is resonance.
500
Thinking of a trough on the ground from which animals eat will help you remember...
the trough of a transverse wave is the bottom part of a wave.