Definitions
The distance from one crest to another crest.
What is wavelength?
From less dense to more dense, the wavelength _____________. (decreases/ increases/ stays the same)
What is "decreases"?
Unit for frequency.
What is Hz or 1/s?
The top part of a transverse wave
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A type of toothpaste
What is crest?
When the period doubles, the frequency doubles.
What is halves?
How long it takes a wave to complete a single cycle.
What is period?
From more dense to less dense, the frequency ____________. (increases/ decreases/ stays the same).
What is "stays the same"?
Third harmonic has ______ nodes.
What is 4?
An ending to a sentence
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The time for one cycle to occur
What is period?
Amplitude is the distance from the highest point to the lowest point.
What is "highest point to the rest position OR lowest point to the rest position"?
A point on a standing wave that does not move.
What is a node?
What is "increases"?
You double the frequency while doing the slinky experiment. The velocity changes by this factor.
What is "the velocity doesn’t change at all"?
Measuring from East to West
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The type of wave which sound travels
What is longitudinal?
Water wave is a longitudinal wave.
What is "transverse wave"?
When two waves interfere, the resulting displacement is the combination of displacements of the individual waves at that moment.
What is principle of superposition?
Two slinkies are tied together. The first slinky has a wavelength of 1.0 m and speed of 2.0 m/s. What is the speed of the second slinky if it has a wavelength of 2.0 m?
What is "4.0 m/s"?
In a wave, __________ is the idea that objects have certain frequencies that they vibrate at most easily.
What is resonance?
A single vibration of a wave
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A rhythmic throbbing of the arteries
What is pulse?
When a wave hits a barrier, all of the wave refracts (goes through and bends).
What is "part of the wave reflects (bounces back)"?
Another name for the 1st harmonic.
What is fundamental frequency?
Two slinkies are tied together. The first slinky has a wavelength of 2.0 m and speed of 3.0 m/s. What is the wavelength of the second slinky if it has a speed of 9.0 m/s?
What is "6.0 m"?
Name of the bridge that collapsed in 1940.
What is Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
A person who speaks with the dead
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A material that a mechanical wave travels through
What is medium?
Different musical notes are sounds with different amplitudes.
What are "frequencies"?