waves & water properties
A disturbance that curries energy from place to place
what is a wave?
highest part of a transverse
what is crest?
they higher the ____ the more energy in the wave
what is frequency?
A material to travel through
what is medium?
the lowest part of a transverse wave
what is trough?
what is the unit of frequency
what is hertz?
must have a medium in order to move
what is mechanical waves?
where the wave particles are close together
what is compression?
the distance between one point on a wave and the exact same place on the next wave
no medium
what is EM waves?
where the particles are spread apart
what is rare fraction?
how far the medium moves from rest position
what is amplitude?
waves in which the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave
what is transverse waves?
waves where the medium moves back and forth in the same direction as the wave
what is longitudinal/compressional waves?
primary colors of pigments
what is cyan, magenta and yellow?