Properties of Waves
This property is the height of a wave, from its resting position to the highest crest.
What is amplitude?
Sound waves require a medium, making them this kind of wave.
What is mechanical?
Which type of wave can move through a vacuum?
Electromagnetic
This type of wave has the lowest frequency/energy out of all the EM waves.
What is a radio wave?
When light waves do not pass through a material or reflect off of it, this interaction occurs.
What is absorption?
This property represents the number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time, usually one second.
What is frequency?
Sound waves use compressions and rarefactions to move energy from one location to another making it this type of wave.
What is longitudinal?
Light waves move in an up and down motion, or this type of wave?
What is transverse?
This type of wave is the most dangerous of all waves due to its high frequency and energy.
What are gamma rays?
As light waves enter water, they slow down. This causes an effect that makes items appear broken or bent.
What is refraction?
This property is measured by finding the distance between two crests or troughs.
What is wavelength?
As you increase the frequency of a sound wave, what else is increasing?
What is the pitch?
When you increase the amplitude of a light wave, you will see this affect in the real world?
What is increased intensity?
The visible light spectrum has seven colors in this order.
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
When light hits a smooth surface and bounces off, this type of interaction occurs like when you look in a mirror.
What is relfection?
As you increase the frequency of a wave, the energy of a wave typically does what?
What is increases?
When you increase the amplitude of a sound wave, you would be increasing this. Wow, my ears are hurting already!
What is the voulme?
As light is absorbed by a material, it transfers into this type of energy. Almost gave me third degree burns once...
What is heat?
The EM spectrum places the different types of waves in a specific order based on which increasing property?
As light meets a prism, it is refracted or bent causing this to appear.
What is the rainbow or visible light spectrum?
What type of energy can move from one area to another without causing any vibration in the particles around it?
What is radiant energy?
This type of wave interaction occurs when sound bounces off of a material and creates an echo effect like yelling in the school gym.
What is refelction?
This color of light has the highest frequency, almost enough to cause a sunburn.
What is violet?
The EM spectrum has seven types of waves in this order.
When light meets a material and is dispersed in all locations we call it this. No wonder the sky is blue!
What is scattering?