Vocabulary
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another is called _____________.
What is a wave?
The highest part of a wave is called _________.
What is the crest?
Waves that move back and forth (parallel) in the same direction as the energy flow.
What are longitudinal waves?
What is a medium?
What is a material in which waves travel through?
The volume on your BlueTooth device controls which wave property?
What is amplitude?
The material in which waves travels through is called ________.
What is a medium?
The lowest part of a wave is called _________.
What is the trough?
Waves that move up and down (perpendicular) to the flow of energy.
What are transverse waves?
Which medium does SOUND waves travel through the fastest? (solids, liquids, or gases)
What are solids?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Waves transfer what?
What is energy?
The _________ determines how long a wave is.
What is wavelength?
The ____________ how far the particles in the medium move away from their normal rest position. It's the height of the wave
What is amplitude?
Waves that require a medium are called ______.
Mechanical waves
Which medium do SOUND waves travel the slowest? (solids, liquids, or gases?)
What are gases?
The stretched out part of a longitudinal wave is called _______________.
What is rarefaction?
This term describes the number of waves passing a point during a period of time.
What is frequency?
How do you measure wavelength on a transverse wave?
What is from one part of the wave to the corresponding part on the next wave?
Waves that requires no medium is called _______.
Electromagnetic wave
As the wavelength of a wave increases, its frequency ________________.
What is decreases?
*** Double Jeopardy ***
If the energy of a wave had increased by a factor of 9, then how must the waves's amplitude have changed?
What is the wave was three times larger in amplitude?
Frequency is expressed in these units.
What is Hertz (Hz)?
The speed of a wave can be calculated by multiplying these two wave characteristics.
What is wavelength and frenquency?
True or False: Sound waves are primarily transverse waves.
What is FALSE?
True or False: A SOUND wave travels faster in a liquid medium than a solid medium.
What is FALSE?
What are the three specific quantities that define a wave?
What are amplitude, frequency, and wavelength?