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Waves
Wave Anatomy
Wave Properties
Wave Calculations
Challenge Questions
100
Waves that have to have a medium to travel through
What is a mechanical wave?
100
The highest point on a transverse wave
What is the crest?
100
This measurement is the height of the crest or the depth of the trough on a transverse wave
What is amplitude?
100

A wave with a frequency of 14 Hz has a wavelength of 3 meters. Tell me the wave speed

What is 42m/s?

100
Sound waves travel fastest in this phase of matter
What are solids?
200
Waves that do not require a medium to travel through
What is an electromagnetic wave?
200
The lowest point on a transverse wave
What is the trough?
200
This measurement is made from one crest to the next crest, or from one trough to the next trough
What is wavelength?
200

The speed of a wave is 65 m/sec. If the wavelength of the wave is 0.8 meters, what is the frequency of the wave?

What is 81.25 Hz?

200

Sound waves travel faster as the temperature ___.

What is increases (gets hotter, etc)?

300
A water wave is an example of this kind of mechanical wave
What is a transverse wave?
300
The area of tightly-squeezed together particles in a compressional wave
What is a compression?
300
The number of wave crests that pass by a fixed point in one second is called this
What is frequency?
300

A wave has a frequency of 46 Hz and a wavelength of 1.7 meters. Tell me the speed of this wave.

What is 78.2m/s?

300

A reflected sound wave would be called _______.

What is an echo?

400
Wave where the medium moves back-and-forth in the same direction as the wave is traveling in
What is a compressional wave?
400
The area where particles are spread apart in a compressional wave
What is a rarefaction?
400
Mechanical waves travel fastest in ____, and slowest in ____.
What are solids and gases (has to be that order).
400

If the speed of a wave is 150 m/s and its frequency is 2 Hz, what is its wavelength?

What is 75m?

400

A very loud sound that is produces when an objects exceeds the speed of sound.

What is a sonic boom?

500
Waves where the medium moves at right angles to the direction the wave is traveling in
What is a transverse wave?
500
The position on a transverse wave where the wave has no energy; the midpoint of the wave
What is the rest position?
500
The measurement of how much energy a mechanical wave has
What is amplitude?
500

A sound wave in air has a frequency of 262 Hz and travels at a speed of 330 m/s. What is the wavelength of this wave?

What is 1.26m?

500
This effect is heard when a moving object sounds higher-pitched as it approaches, then lower-pitched after it passes by.
What is the Doppler effect?