Types of Waves
Characteristics of a Wave
Behavior of Waves
Sound
v = f λ
100
Low points of a wave
What are troughs?
100
The product of its frequency and wavelength
What is speed?
100
The bending of a wave around an object
What is diffraction?
100
Type of wave that can travel through any solids, liquids, or gas.
What is a sound wave?
100
What is the v if λ = 35 m and ƒ = 8 Hz?
v = 280 m/s
200
More dense region of a wave
What is compression?
200
The distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it
What is a wavelength?
200
What is refraction?
200
Part of the ear that's visible
What is the outer ear?
200
A wave on a certain guitar string travels at a speed of 200m/s sounding at 40 Hz. Calculate the wavelength.
λ = 5
300
Type of wave that contains crests and troughs
What is a transverse wave?
300
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second
What is frequency?
300
When a wave strikes an object or surface and bounces off
What is reflection?
300
The amount of energy that passes through a certain area in a specific amount of time
What is intensity?
300
Sound waves in air travel at approximately 330m/s. Calculate the frequency of a 2 m long sound wave.
f = 165 Hz
400
Type of wave that contains compressions and rarefaction
What is a longitudinal wave?
400
As this characteristics of a wave increases, the disturbance from the wave also increases
What is an amplitude of a wave?
400
When an object is made to vibrate absorbing energy at its natural frequencies
What is resonance?
400
A spiral-shaped structure that is filled with liquid and contains tiny hair cells that vibrates.
What is cochlea?
400
What is the λ if v = 4 m/s and ƒ = 1582 Hz?
λ = 395.5 m
500
Type of wave that only travels through matter
What is a mechanical wave?
500
The angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection
What is the law of reflection?
500
The change in wave frequency due to a wave source moving relative to an observe
What is the Doppler effect?
500
What is the v if λ = 263 m and ƒ = 178 Hz?
v = 46,814 m/s