Qualities of Waves
This part of a wave is the lowest point of amplitude
What is trough
What is a formula used to calculate for frequency given the period?
What is T = 1/f
This object has a periodic motion that is typically tied to clocks.
What is a pendulum?
This term refers to highness or lowness of frequencies in a sound.
What is Pitch
The painter of the Mona Lisa is...
What is Da Vinci?
This term refers to the overall distance between the resting position of a wave and its crest or trough.
What is amplitude
What is the formula used to calculate frequency in relation to velocity and wavelength?
What is Wavelength = Velocity / Frequency
Briefly describe what a period cycle consists of.
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This term of sound is determined by the amplitude of a pressure wave.
What is loudness
The name of the Milky way's neighboring galaxy is known as what?
What is the Andromeda galaxy
This part of moving waves changes in response to a disturbance in the wave.
What is antinode?
As wavelength increases what happens to frequency?
What is decreases?
Describe the formula used to calculate the period of something like a pendulum.
What is T= 2pi sq.rt.(l/g)
What is the name used to describe an ever increasing tone?
What is the Shepherd tone?
The name of the 18th president of the United States is known as...
What is Ulysses S. Grant
Calculate the wavelength of a sound with the frequency of 0.104 Hz.
What is approximately 3,300 meters.
Which of the two frequencies would have a higher pitch?
430 Hz or 290 Hz
What is 430 Hz.
Calculate the period of a pendulum with a length of 7.3 meters at regular gravity.
What is approximately 5.4 seconds?
Accurately explain why the Doppler effect creates the sound that it does.
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'I have never found a companion that was more companionable than solitude' is a quote by who?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
A loud sound travels through water. The time it took to hear the sound was 3.4 seconds at a distance of 5,100 meters. If the wavelength of said sound is 1,250 meters what is the frequency?
What is 1.2 Hz
Calculate the frequency of a Nascar driver who drives a 16,000 meter lap every 26.7 seconds. Assume wavelength is the same as one lap.
What is approximately 0.037?
Calculate the gravitational pull on a pendulum with a period of 2.46 seconds and a length of 1.5 meters.
What is approximately 9.8 m/s^2?
Describe one way in which the Doppler effect is used in science and technology.
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The effect caused when water bounces on a hot stovetop due to the release of water vapor underneath the water is known as what...
What is the Leidenfrost effect.