Wave Review

Waves Types

100

What are waves that require a medium through which to travel called?

What are mechanical waves?

200

a wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.

What is a transverse wave?

300

Sound travels through a medium as what kind of wave?

What is a longitudinal wave?

400

a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter.

What is a wave?

500

What is a reflected sound wave called?

What is an echo?

Wave Properties

100

What is the distance between 2 corresponding parts of a wave called?

What is the wavelength?

200

the height of the wave from the resting period to the crest

What is amplitude?

300

What is the number of waves that pass a given point in a given amount of time?

What is frequency?

400

Waves transfer this but NOT matter

What is energy?

500

What is the unit of measurement of frequency?

What is a hertz?

Wave Interactions

100

waves passing through a window

What is transmission?

200

Foam walls in a sound studio do this to sound waves

What is absorb or absorption?

300

Waves bouncing back off of the side of a swimming pool

What is reflection

400

Why can you hear your friends talking in a classroom before you walk through the doorway?

What is diffraction?

500

What is the bending of waves due to a change in speed called?

What is refraction?

Definitions

100

The highest point of a wave

What is a crest?

200

The lowest point on a wave

What is a trough?

300

The coils of a longitudinal wave that are close together

What is a compression?

400

The coils of a longitudinal wave that are spread apart

What is a rarefaction?

500

anything that takes up space (solid, liquid, gas)

What is matter?

More Wave Stuff

100

More energy given to a wave results in a greater amplitude. True or False

What is true?

200

As the frequency of a wave increases this happens to the wavelength

What is decreases?

300

Sound travels the fastest through this form of matter

What is a solid?

400

These two things effect the speed of sound

What are density and temperature?

500

The mathematical formula for energy and amplitude

What is Energy=Amplitude²?