Parts of a wave
What part of the wave is the crest?
What is the Highest Point
What is a type of electronic radiation that is invisible to the human eye and has longer wavelengths than red light?
What is infrared light
What is loudness
What is how far the medium moves from rest position?
What is Amplitude
What is where the particles are close together?
What is Compression
What is the lowest part of the wave?
What is a trough?
What is radio waves, microwaves, Ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays?
What is a visible light
What is how low or high a sound seems to be?
What is how many waves go up past a point in one second, unit of measurement is Hertz?
What is Frequency
What is where the particles are spread apart?
What is Rarefraction
What particle motion is parallel to the direction of the wave?
What is Longitudinal?
What is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than the visible light?
What is Ultraviolet Light
What is Sound frequiences above 20,000 Hz?
What is Ultrasonic
What is the distance between one point on a wave and the exact same place on the next wave?
What is wavelength
What is the bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass?
What is Reflection
What is the substance or material through which it travels, not a part of the wave itself?
What is a medium
What is high energy electromagnetic radiation originating from radioactive decay?
What is Gamma Rays
What is the interference that occurs when 2 waves combine to make a wave with a larger amplitude?
What is constructive Interference
What is can travel through solids, liquids, and gasses?
What is Sound
What is the bending of a wave as it enters a new medium?
What is Refraction
What is the maximum displacement or distance a point on a wave travels from its rest position?
What is a medium
What is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 1 millimeter?
What is a Microwave
What is the inference that occurs when 2 waves combine to make a wave with a smaller amplitude?
What is destructive Inference
What is waves in which the medium moves at right angles to the direction of the wave?
What is transvere waves
What is the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection on a flat reflective surface?
What is Law of Reflection