What are Waves?
A disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place
What is a wave?
The maximum distance the medium vibrates from its rest position
What is amplitude?
The bouncing back of an object or a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass
What is a reflection?
An area where coils are spread out
What is rarefraction?
The material a wave travels through
What is a medium?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
What is wavelength?
Waves bending around a barrier is an example of
What is diffraction?
How far a wave travels in a given amount of time
What is speed?
Waves that require a medium to go through
What is a mechanical wave?
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time
What is frequency?
The bending of waves due to a change of speed
What is refraction?
This caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to collapse
What is resonance?
What is a crest?
Wavelength x Frequency is the formula for what?
What is speed?
The interaction between waves that meet
What is interference?
The lowest part of a wave
What is a trough?
This wave vibrates the medium in the same direction in which the wave travels
What is a longitudinal wave?
This travels faster than sound
What is light?
A wave that appears to stand in one place, even though it is two waves interfering as they pass through each other
What is a standing wave?
When two waves combine to make a wave with an amplitude smaller than the amplitude of either of the individual waves
What is destructive interference?