Properties
Waves that require a medium to travel.
What are mechanical waves?
When a wave hits a surfaces and bounces off of it in the opposite direction.
What is reflection?
The type of wave that sound waves are considered to be.
What is mechanical wave?
Waves that do not require a medium to travel.
What are electromagnetic waves?
The measure of distance from one wave crest to the next nearest crest.
What is wavelength?
When a wave passes through a surface and bends.
What is refraction?
This refers to how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
The type of electromagnetic wave with the lowest amount of energy.
What are radio waves?
The measure of the amount of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
When a wave hits a surface and spreads out its energy.
What is diffraction?
Sound waves are this type of mechanical wave.
What is longitudinal?
This type of electromagnetic wave can be produced by the sun.
What is ultraviolet wave?
The measure of distance between the top of a wave and the line through the middle.
What is amplitude?
When a wave hits a surface and its energy is absorbed.
What is absorption?
Mechanical waves can be divided further into these two categories.
What are transverse and longitudinal?
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be seen by the human eye.
What is visible light?
The formula used to calculate speed of a wave.
What is wavelength x frequency?
When a wave strikes an object that is already vibrating and causes it to vibrate faster.
What is resonance?
When the frequency of a sound wave changes based on how close or far it is from the listener.
What is the Doppler Effect?
This type of electromagnetic waves gives off heat that we can feel but not see.
What is infrared wave?