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What is a Wave?
Wave Characteristics
Wave Interactions
Wave Behavior
Miscellaneous
100
a disturbance that carries energy through matter and space.
What is a wave?
100
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
100
The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes an object.
What is reflection?
100
The bending of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
100
The lowest point of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
200
The substance through which a wave can travel.
What is a medium?
200
The speed at which a wave travels.
What is wave speed?
200
An interaction that occurs when two or more waves overlap.
What is interference?
200
The bending of a wave around a barrier or through an opening.
What is diffraction?
200
A wave that requires a medium to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
300
A wave that does not require a medium.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
300
The number of waves produced in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
300
Interference that results in a wave that has a larger amplitude than that of the individual wave.
What is constructive interference?
300
Interference that results when a wave has a smaller amplitude than that of the individual waves.
What is destructive interference?
300
The unit used to express frequency. It is equal to one cycle per second.
What is hertz?
400
A wave in which the particles vibrate perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling.
What is a transverse wave?
400
The distance between one point on a wave and the corresponding point on an adjacent wave.
What is wavelength?
400
A wave that forms a stationary pattern in which portions of the wave do not move and portions move with a large amplitude.
What is a standing wave?
400
The maximum distance a wave travels from its rest position.
What is amplitude?
400
A region of high density in a longitudinal wave.
What is a compression?
500
A wave in which the particles vibrate back and forth along the path the wave is traveling.
What is a longitudinal wave?
500
A region of low density within a longitudinal wave.
What is a rarefaction?
500
Reflection that results when light bounces off an object that is not smooth. This is why an image cannot be seen in these surfaces.
What is diffuse reflection?
500
What occurs when an object vibrating at or near the resonant frequency of a second object causes the object to vibrate.
What is resonance?
500
A wave that occurs at or near the boundary of two media. It is the combination of a transverse and a longitudinal wave.
What is a surface wave?