Waves
Particles, are spaced close together
What is Compression?
Moving an up and down motion
What is Transverse?
Require a medium
What is Mechanical Wave?
Where waves begins disturbing the medium
Rest position
Small tightly stretched drum like membrane
What is a Ear Drum?
Number of complete cycles in a given time
What is Frequency?
Back and forth motion
What is Longitudinal Wave?
Disturbance traveling through medium
What is Sound?
Distance from the rest position top or bottom wave
What is Amplitude?
Fluid filled cavity (snail shaped)
What is Cochlea?
Use of reflected sound to determine distance or to locate
What is Echolocation?
Wavelength x Frequency
What is speed?
Longitudinal Seismic Wave and Transverse wave Seismic Wave
What is P wave and S wave?
Highest point, above the rest point
What is Crest?
Bending due to change in speed
What is Refraction?
How sounds interact w/each other
What is Acoustics?
Particles are spread out
What is Rarefaction?
Reflected sound, deflected and locate objects underwater
What is Sonar?
Distance between two corresponding parts
What is Wavelength?
A bounce back
What is Reflection?
Lowest below the rest position
What is Trough?
Through an opening.... bending and spreading
What is Diffraction?
Appears to stand in one place
What is Standing wave?
Transfer energy from place to place
What is Wave?
Narrow region from the outside of the human ear to the ear drum
What is Ear Canal?