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Wave Characteristics Part 1
Types of Waves
Wave Properties Part 1
Wave Properties Part 2
Wave Characteristics Part 2
100
The maximum displacement from equilibrium
What is amplitude?
100
A type of wave in which the disturbance moves at right angles, or perpendicular, to the direction in which the wave travels
What is a transverse wave?
100
The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier
What is reflection?
100
Interference in which the resultant wave results in a smaller amplitude
What is destructive interference?
100
A disturbance that carries energy through matter or space
What is a wave?
200
The number of cycles or vibrations per unit of time
What is frequency?
200
A type of wave in which the disturbance moves in the same direction that the wave travels
What is a longitudinal wave?
200
The bending of a wave as it crosses the boundary between two mediums at an angle other than 90 degrees
What is refraction?
200
The change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to its source
What is the Doppler effect?
200
The time it takes to execute a complete cycle of motion
What is a period?
300
The distance between two adjacent similar points of the wave, such as from crest to crest or from trough to trough
What is wavelength?
300
A wave that requires a medium to travel through
What is a mechanical wave?
300
The spreading out of waves as they pass through an opening or around the edges of an obstacle
What is diffraction?
300
The speed at which a wave travels
What is wave speed?
300
The material through which a disturbamce travels
What is a medium?
400
The lowest point below the equilibrium position
What is a trough?
400
A transverse wave consisting of oscillating electric and magnetic fields at right angles to each other
What is an electromagnetic wave?
400
The meeting and combining of waves; the adding or subtracting of wave amplitudes that occurs as waves overlap
What is interference?
400
Vibration about an equilibrium position in which a resulting force is proportional to the displacement from equilibrium
What is harmonic motion?
400
Power that all waves exert
What is energy?
500
The highest point above the equilibrium position
What is a crest?
500
A wave that combines transverse and longitudinal waves, or a wave in which particles of the medium undergo a circular motion
What is a surface wave?
500
Interference in which the resultant wave results in a larger amplitude
What is constructive interference?
500
The quality of highness or lowness of a sound, based on frequency
What is pitch?
500
Law that states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection
What is the Law of Reflection?