What are waves?
Lowest point in a transverse wave
What is a trough?
Transfers energy but not matter
What is a wave?
Maximum distance particles in a medium move from their rest position as waves pass through the medium.
What is amplitude?
Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection
What is the law of reflection?
This is what you collect in an experiment
What is data?
Highest point in a transverse wave
What is a crest?
Can travel through empty space and through matter
What is an electromagnetic wave?
Number of waves that pass by a point each second
What is frequency?
Pertaining to building or putting parts together to make a whole
What is constructive?
This is the only type of heat transfer that can travel through the vacuum of space
What is radiation?
A sound wave is this type of wave
What is mechanical (longitudinal)?
Makes the particles in a medium move parallel to the direction of the wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
Distance from one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave
What is wavelength?
Waves that overlap combine to form a new wave
What is interference?
This is what you do immediately after collecting your data
What is analyze?
The type of wave given off by all living organisms
What is infrared?
Material in which a mechanical wave travels
What is a medium?
Transfer of energy by a wave to the medium through which it travels
What is absorption?
Bouncing a wave off a surface
What is reflection?
This is something that contains information that you collect prior to planning an experiment
What is reference material?
Region of a longitudinal wave where the particles in the medium are closest together
What is compression?
Region of a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart
What is rarefaction?
Change in direction of a wave when it travels by the edge of an abject or through an opening
What is diffraction?
What is transmission?
The variable that the test variable is compared to
What is the control variable?