Wave Features & Properties
Draw a transverse wave and label a crest and trough.
(on whiteboard)
The frequency is 4 Hz, the wavelength is 2 cm, and velocity is ______.
What is 8 cm/sec?
The 6 design steps that successful engineers use.
An example of refraction.
What is when a straw looks bent in a cup of liquid?
How sound is sent through radio waves.
What is when a carrier wave is mixed with sound waves and creates a modulated wave?
The lowest point of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
The frequency is 7 Hz, the wavelength is 6 cm, and velocity is ______.
What is 42 cm/sec?
The definition of a constraint.
What is a limitation to a design?
The definition of refraction.
What is when a medium changes and a waves speed and then direction changes?
What is an AM wave?
How wavelength is measured.
What is from crest to crest?
The wavelength is 8 ft, the velocity is 80 ft/sec, and frequency is ______.
What is 10 Hz?
The type of wave light is.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
How fiber optics work.
What is when light travels through a fiber at an angle that hits total internal reflection?
The reason why AM waves are full of static.
What is because their amplitude is constantly changing which creates static?
How amplitude is measured.
What is crest to rest?
The definitions of a direct relationship.
When both variables increase or decrease?
How we see color.
What is the color we see is the wavelength reflected while all other colors are absorbed?
A constraint of fiber optics.
What is the fiber can not bend too much or the light will refract?
How digital and analog waves are different.
What is analog wave coordinates are infinite and digital wave only use whole number coordinates?
How frequency is measured.
What is how many wavelengths in a second?
A wave property that has an inverse relationship with energy.
What is wavelength?
The law of reflection.
What is the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection?
What happens when light refracts from a fiber optic.
What is the light signal does not reach its destination because it leaks?
How to improve the resolution of digital photo.
What is to increase the number of pixels?