Waves 1
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Wave Facts and Equations
Misc.
100

The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time

What is wave frequency?

100

What causes a wave to start?

When a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate.

100

A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.

What is a wave?

100

What is the equation to find wavelength if you have known values for frequency and wave speed?

Lamda = v/f

100

Vibrating guitar strings, pendulums and metronomes are examples of this type of wave motion.

What is simple harmonic motion?

200

This is a wave in which the medium vibrates at right angles to the direction of its propagation

This is a wave vibrating in the direction of propagation


What is a transverse wave? 

What is a longitudinal wave?


200

the distance between successive crests of a wave.

What is wavelength?

200

What is needed to create a wave?

Waves are created by energy passing through water, causing it to move in a circular motion

200

Waves with higher energy have BLANK wavelength

What is shorter?

200

How many total atoms of oxygen are in 2FeSO4?

8

300

Hammer, anvil and stirrup are this

What is the three bones in the ear that vibrate and allow us to hear?

300

How does a longitudinal wave move?

It moves the medium the way the wave travels.

300

amplitude, frequency, period, wavelength, speed, and phase are examples of...

What are the wave properties?

300

Waves with higher energy have BLANK frequency

What is higher?

300

When balancing chemical equations you may have to change these numbers

What are coefficients?

400

What is an example of a wave that doesn't need a medium to travel through?

The light from the sun

400

Give an example of an longitudinal wave

sound waves

ultrasound waves

400

Give an example of transverse waves

Ripples on the surface of water

Light

400

What is the equation for finding wave speed?

v = lamda x f

400

C3H+ O2 ---> CO+ H2O is an example of this type of chemical reaction

What is combustion?

500

What happens when a wave hits a surface in which it cannot pass?

reflection occurs

500

What are mediums made of?

Gases, liquids and solids. 

500

how are longitudinal and transverse waves alike, how are they different?

transverse waves oscillate perpendicular to the direction of propagation, while longitudinal waves oscillate parallel to the direction of propagation.

500

In waves of equal energy, as wavelength increases, what happens to frequency?

The frequency decreases

500

What are the equations for calculating kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy?

KE = 1/2mvand GPE=ham