Electromagnetic Waves
The type of wave shape/type that all electromagnetic waves have.
What is a transverse (wave)?
Waves that must travel through a medium.
What are mechanical waves?
The peak of a transitive wave.
What is the crest?
This happens when a wave is completely blocked by an object and the wave continues traveling with all of its original energy at the angle of incidence.
What is reflection?
Short wavelength leads to a high measurement of this property of a wave.
What is frequency?
One of the types of electromagnetic waves used in radiation therapy with short wavelengths and high frequencies.
What are gamma or x-rays?
Waves that can travel through a medium or a vacuum.
What are electromagnetic waves?
The bottom of a transitive wave.
What is a trough?
This refers to a bending of waves due to a change in speed, and can be easily seen when a pencil is put into a glass of water.
What is refraction?
This describes the act of two waves meeting, causing a reduction or zeroing of amplitude.
What is destructive interference?
Waves that are mostly absorbed in Earth's atmosphere, have shorter wavelength than visible light, and aid in the process of sterilization.
What are ultraviolet waves?
The type of mechanical waves that move like a slinky, parallel to the direction of their source.
What are longitudinal waves?
Height of a transitive wave, or the maximum distance that the wave moves from its rest position.
What is the amplitude?
This term describes an object that, when a light wave passes through it, none of the light energy is absorbed by the object.
What is transparency?
Besides cooking, microwaves are used for this type of detection done by weather channels.
What is radar?
Also known as thermal radiation, this type of electromagnetic wave has wavelength shorter than a microwave but longer than visible light.
What is an infrared wave?
Shape of wave that is found within both mechanical AND electromagnetic wave types and moves perpendicular to the source like a shaken rope.
What is a transitive wave?
The distance between two troughs or two crests.
This happens when energy from a wave is transferred to the material the wave encounters.
What is absorption?
This is what a wave transfers through disturbing its surroundings.
What is energy?
The color with shortest wavelength and longest frequency.
What is violet?
Wave with transitive and longitudinal properties.
What are surface waves?
The number of wavelengths that pass by a point each second.
The phenomena where a wave bends around objects, usually seen in sound waves, like when a police siren goes by or a someone calls to another person down a hallway.
What is diffraction?
What is amplitude?