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Eli the Best
Name that Wave!
Wave Characteristics
Damping
Giants are Awesome
100
Misterr. G's favorite book
What is The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy?
100
Needs a medium to travel through.
What is a mechanical wave?
100
Maximum displacement from equilibrium
What is the amplitude?
100
When you lose energy to your surroundings
What is dissipation?
100
A Mass on a Spring
What is the simplest machine that models Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)? (Pendulum would also have worked)
200
The Tacoma Bridge is an example of when this is matched by an external force
What is the natural frequency?
200
Light is an example of this
What is an electromagnetic wave?
200
Amount of time to complete one cycle
What is the period?
200
The weakest of types of damping
What is light damping?
200
The total energy for a system in SHM will...
What is remain constant?
300
Length of the Pendulum Arm
What affects the period of a pendulum?
300
Sound is an example of this type of wave (the answer is not mechanical)
What is a longitudinal wave?
300
The equation relating frequency to period
What is F=1/P?
300
The amplitude of the wave will do this when damped.
What decreases until it goes to zero?
300
1988
What is the year that the Giants won a superbowl?
400
The rule for drawing reflected waves
What is invert then flip? (will accept flip/rotate then flip/rotate again)
400
Another name for an earthquake
What is a seismic wave?
400
What is Wavelength x Frequency?
What is Speed?
400
The name of the part in a car that acts as a damper
What is the gas shock absorber? (must be exact)
400
Double Double!!!
For an object to be resonating, what condition must be met?
500
Daily Triple!
What is the main thing that affects the speed of sound?
500
A fishing bobber reacts to the movement of water, which behaves like this kind of wave
What is a transverse wave?
500
This is the area of expansion in longitudinal waves
What is rarefraction?
500
This is the major cause of energy loss for objects in motion.
What is friction?
500
Frictionless, No Energy loss, Perfect are all examples relating to this word.
What is Ideal?