What is?
Carries energy but not matter from one place to another.
What is a wave?
Frequency and wavelength.
What do you need to calculate the speed of a wave?
Electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves.
What are the 2 types of waves?
These types of waves can be reflected AND refracted.
What is ALL types of waves?
A type of mechanical wave that travels through Earth's interior.
What is a seismic wave?
The lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
Frequency multiplied by wavelength.
What is the formula for calculating the speed of a wave?
What is EM?
This is what happens when a wave is bounced off of a surface.
What is reflection?
Waves arranged by wavelength and frequency, most of which are invisible to the human eye.
What is the EM spectrum?
The distance of a wave from the crest or trough to the X-axis.
Lambda, λ
What Greek symbol represents wavelength?
These waves transfer energy by vibrating particles.
What is a mechanical wave?
This is what happens when a wave passes through another medium and changes speed and/or direction.
What is refraction?
The type of wave that arrives first in an earthquake, short for primary.
What is a p-wave?
A measurement of distance of one complete cycle or oscillation of a wave.
What is wavelength?
If the frequency of a wave is 5 Hz and the wavelength is 10 m, what is its speed?
50 m/s
These waves can travel in a vacuum and do not need particles to vibrate to transfer energy.
What is an EM wave?
An incident ray is always equal in angle to it's reflected ray.
What is the Law of Reflection?
Are you able to calculate the wavelength of a wave if you know only it's speed and type?
No! You would at least need the wavelength and frequency to use the formula to calculate speed.
The amount of full cycles or oscillations a wave can complete in 1 second. Measured in Hz.
What is frequency?
If the speed of wave is 60 m/s and the frequency is 3 Hz, what is the wavelength?
20 meters
Sound is an example of this type of wave.
What is a mechanical wave?
All mediums have varying speeds at which EM waves can travel through, which can be looked up with this.
What is an Index of Refraction?
Where Miss U was born and raised :)
What is Hawaii?