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The Basics
Properties of a Wave
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Wildcard
100
A force that starts a wave.
What is a disturbance?
100
The top/peak of a transverse wave.
What is the crest?
100
The bouncing back of a wave.
What is reflection?
100
The speed of a wave with a frequency of 12.5 waves per second and wavelength of 4 meters.
What is 50 meters per second?
100
Wave speed is __________ times frequency.
What is wavelength?
200
The substance a mechanical wave moves through.
What is medium?
200
The lowest point of a transverse wave.
What is the trough?
200
The spreading out of waves through an opening.
What is diffraction?
200
The speed of an ocean wave with a wavelength of 200cm and frequency of 8 waves per second. (Convert answer to meters/second)
What is 16 meters per second?
200
The wave height if the amplitude is 6 meters.
What is 12 meters?
300
Is transferred from one place to another by a wave.
What is energy?
300
The distance from one compression to the next on a longitudinal wave.
What is wavelength?
300
The interacting or combining of waves.
What is interference?
300
The wavelength of a wave traveling 6 meters per second with a frequency of 3 waves per second.
What is 2 meters?
300
The type of wave that travels through matter.
What is mechanical wave?
400
Waves that move up and down, perpendicular to the disturbance.
What are transverse waves?
400
Half of the distance from the highest to lowest point on a transverse wave.
What is amplitude?
400
The bending of waves due to a change in medium.
What is refraction?
400
The frequency of a wave traveling 9 meters per second if it has a wavelength of 400 centimeters.
What is 2.25 waves per second?
400
The medium used by seismic waves, even though P-waves are longitudinal and surface waves are transverse.
What is the ground?
500
Two names for the wave that travels parallel to the direction of the disturbance.
What is compressional and longitudinal wave?
500
The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a second.
What is frequency?
500
The type of wave interaction where the resulting wave is larger due to energies combining.
What is constructive interference?
500
The wavelength of a wave if it is traveling 12 m/s and it takes 4 seconds for one wave to pass.
What is 48 meters?
500
Term that describes 2 waves that collide and cancel each other out.
What is destructive interference?