Name That Wave
It can't fix a car, but this does require a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
This is the highest part of a transverse wave.
What is crest?
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium.
What is amplitude?
This is the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The material (not too big, and not too small) through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
A wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is trough?
The distance bwtween two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
This is a repeated back and forth or up and down motion.
What is vibration?
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels
What is a longitudinal wave?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is compression?
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
Light, x-rays, radio, microwaves and ultraviolet waves can travel through?
What is empty space?
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
My motion combines both back and forth and up and down motion so particles appear to be moving in a circle.
What is a surface wave?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is rarefaction?
Unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a hertz (Hz)?
This is the measurement from one wave to another wave.
What is wavelength?
These are transverse seismic waves.
What are S waves?
These waves are created as a result of vibrations between an electric field and a magnetic field.
What are electromagnetic waves?
The position a wave would assume if there was no disturbance.
What is what is rest position?
Unit of measurement for distance traveled by a wave in a given period of time.
What is meter (m)?
This is how surface waves particles appear to move.
What is in a circle?
Waves are created when this transfers energy from place to place.
What is disturbance?