Wave Properties
Light Waves
Waves??
100
The height of wave from midline to crest or trough.
What is the amplitude?
100
What is the part where humans can see the color of light.
What is visible light?
100
What wave had the lowest energy.
What is a radio wave?
200
Crest to crest; trough to trough; resting point to resting point.
What is wavelength?
200
When light or sound waves pass through a material it is called
What is absorption?
200
All of the light passes though
What is transparent?
300
The number of waves over a given period of time.
What is frequency?
300
Waves tend to act this way when they are traveling through a medium like water or another medium they can bounce off of.
What is reflection?
300
If the frequency is high, then the wavelength is.
What is short?
400
The distance between one peak to another peak (or crest to crest)
What is a wavelength?
400
What is refraction?
400
Waves pass through which type of matter the fastest
What is a solid?
500
A solid, liquid, or gas. wave move through these things
What is a medium?
500
This is how a wave behaves when it goes through a medium completely and passes through to the other side.
What is transmission?
500
Which type of wave needs a medium to travel
What is a mechanical wave?