Characteristics of wave
The type of wave that requires a medium to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
This is what happens when a wave bounces off a surface.
What is reflection?
Sound waves are this type of wave.
What are longitudinal waves?
Light waves are this type of wave.
What are electromagnetic waves?
The first major communication device that used electromagnetic waves.
What is the telegraph?
This term describes the distance between consecutive crests or troughs of a wave.
What is wavelength?
The bending of waves as they pass through a different medium.
What is refraction?
The property of a sound wave that is affected when an object resonates.
What is amplitude?
his term describes the bending of light when it passes through a lens.
What is refraction?
his modern device uses radio waves to transmit voice data across vast distances.
What is a cell phone?
The height of a wave, related to its energy.
what is amplitude?
This describes how waves spread out after passing through a narrow opening.
What is diffraction?
This is what happens when sound waves are reflected off a surface.
What is an echo?
This happens to light when it is absorbed by a material.
What is the light energy is converted into heat?
The wave technology used to encode information into 1s and 0s.
What is digital encoding?
This term describes the number of wave cycles that pass a point in one second.
What is frequency?
When light hits a prism, it creates this
What is ROYGBIV ?
The term for the phenomenon where an object vibrates in response to a sound wave at its natural frequency.
What is resonance?
he color of an object is determined by the wavelength of light that is ___________.
What is reflected?
This technology allows wireless computer networks to function.
What is Wi-Fi?
This is the relationship between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength.
What is wave speed equals frequency times wavelength?
This term describes when a wave is absorbed and does not pass through a material.
What is absorption?
A stretched string on an instrument produces sound through these two wave characteristics.
What are frequency and amplitude?
The process by which light is scattered when passing through a prism, revealing a spectrum of colors.
What is dispersion?
Before digital signals became the standard, this type of signal was used to transmit information in continuous waveforms.
What is an analog signal?