Name that Wave
This is the highest part of a transverse wave, not toothpaste.
What is a crest?
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium.
What is amplitude?
The bouncing back of an object or a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.
What is reflection?
Sound waves require this to transfer energy (sound) form one location to another.
What is a medium?
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
The period for 2 Hz.
What is 0.5?
The bending of waves as they enter a new medium at an angle.
What is refraction?
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a longitudinal wave?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is a compression?
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
The bending of waves as they move around a barrier or pass through an opening.
What is diffraction?
The use of sound wave to detect underwater objects.
What is SONAR?
When two wave in phase are traveling toward each other and produce a larger wave.
What is constructive interference?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is a rarefaction?
Unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a hertz (Hz)?
The interaction between waves that meet out of phase and produce a flat line.
What is destructive interference?
The motion a surface wave particle makes.
What is a circle?
A longitudinal wave looks like what child's toy.
What is a slinky?
An increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other .
What is the Doppler effect?
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in 60 seconds?
What is 5 Hz?
The electromagnetic wave with the highest frequency.
What is a gamma wave?
A range of transverse that can travel through space and matter.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?