Types of Waves
What type of wave requires a medium?
Mechanical Waves
A trough is...
The low point of a wave.
A medium in a wave is...
The material in which a wave flows through.
When you are at the beach and a wave splashes on to you, what medium is the wave at?
What is water.
What is the speed of a wave?
What is the amount of distance a wave travels in a given amount of time.
A wave that vibrates the medium at a right angle.
What is the Transverse waves.
The high part of a wave is called...
Rarefaction is...
The state of a wave when coils are spread out.
What is the formula for speed of a wave?
What is Electromagnetic Radiation?
What is the energy the electromagnetic waves transfer through matter or space.
Longitudinal waves
A type of mechanical wave that vibrates the medium at the same direction in which the wave travels in.
The maximum distance the medium vibrates from the rest position. (Hint: the length between the top of wave to the middle.)
Amplitude
Compression is the state of a wave when...
What is the formula for Frequency?
What is Speed/Wavelength.
What is the type of light that passes through a polarizing filter?
What is polarized light.
Electromagnetic waves are
What is a transverse wave that involves the transfer of electric and magnetic energy.
What is the rest position?
The rest position is the measured position of a wave before it moved.
What is the frequency of a wave?
What is the number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is the formula for the Wavelength?
What is the Speed/Frequency.
What is the photoelectric effect.
These waves are waves of space distortion and curvature, produced by the relative motion of gravitating masses.
Gravitational Waves.
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave is . . .
What is the Wavelength.
What is frequency measured in?
Frequency is measured in Hertz.
This wave in the middle of the ocean was produced by an underwater earthquake. If the Wavelength 200,000 Meters, and the speed is 200 M/S, what would be the frequency of this wave?
What is 0.001 Hertz/Second.
What is a vibration?
What is a repeated back-and-forth motion or up and down motion.