Characteristics of a wave
The maximum displacement on either side of the equilibrium.
What is Amplitude
The vibration of nonmaterial fields.
What is light?
The vibration of material molecules such as a solid, liquid, or gas.
What is sound?
The erosion of rocks by water waves.
What is a beach?
A wiggle in time.
What is vibration?
The distance between successive identical parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
The bending of an oblique ray of light when it passes from one medium onto another.
What is Refraction?
vibrations that pass through the molecules of a medium.
What are sound waves?
What is wind?
A wiggle in both time and space.
What is a wave?
The number of vibrations per unit time.
What is frequency?
An energy-carrying wave emitted by vibrating electric charges.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
Sound waves bend when they travel at different speeds.
What is refraction?
Waves on the ocean surface.
What are orbital waves?
The medium vibrates perpendicular to the direction in which the waves travel.
What are transverse waves?
Time required for a vibration or wave to make a complete cycle.
What is Period?
Range that extends in frequency from radio waves to gamma rays.
What are electromagnetic waves?
the material that has the fastest vibrations.
What are solids?
The sun, earth, and moon align making the waves higher or lower than average.
What are spring tides?
The medium vibrates along the direction in which the pulses travel.
What is a longitudinal wave?
Wavelength/period or frequency x wavelength.
What is wave speed?
electromagnetic radiation moves at 300,000 m/s.
What is the speed of light?
Space that cannot transmit sound.
What is a Vacuum?
Earth is between the moon and the sun so high tides are not so high and low tides are not so low.
What are neap tides?
A condense region in a longitudinal wave.
What is compression?