Wave Parts
A transfer of energy caused by a disturbance.
What is a wave?
The number of waves passing a spot at a given time.
What is frequency?
When something goes faster than the speed of sound.
What is super sonic?
A material that allows electric currents to move easily through it.
What is a conductor?
One of two ends of a magnet where the magnetic field either emits or comes in.
What is a pole?
The distance between two wave crests or troughs.
What is a wavelength?
The speed at which energy in the form of a wave is moving.
What is wave speed?
Mechanical, longitudinal waves that are caused by physical disturbances.
What is sound?
The unit for electric potential.
What is a volt?
A natural magnet
What is a lodestone?
The top of a wave
What is a crest?
The bending or redirection of a wave.
What is refraction?
The transfer energy by moving matter.
What is a mechanical wave?
The electric charge that is stored in the charged object. It is potential energy.
What is static electricity?
Types of matter that magnetic fields interact with.
What are ferrous metals.
The height of a wave.
What is the amplitude?
When two waves of the same frequency meet, they amplify the energy of the wave.
What is resonance?
Waves that moves perpendicular to the direction it is moving.
What is a transverse wave?
The “push” that something gives to electrons to cause a current.
What is an electric potential?
The result when a magnetic field moves through an electric current?
What is an electric current?
The unit used for measuring the frequency of waves
What is a hertz?
The property of a wave to “bounce back” when it hits a surface.
What is reflection?
The change in frequency of the sound coming to a stationary observer from a moving object.
What is the doppler effect?
Physical law that states that the stronger the charge, the stronger the force.
What is Columb's Law?
The science of charge and of the forces and fields associated with it.
What is electromagnetism?