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Types of Waves
Vocabulary
Parts of Waves
Doppler
Speed
100
Type of wave where the medium vibrates at right angles to the direction of the wave.
What is transverse wave?
100
The bending of waves around the sides of a barrier.
What is diffraction?
100
The highest point or peak in a wave.
What is a crest?
100
Shock waves created by an aircraft flying above the speed of sound.
What is a sonic boom?
100
Speed
What is wavelength x frequency?
200
Type of wave that causes the medium to travel in the same direction as the wave.
What is longitudinal wave?
200
The zone where waves are crowded together.
What is compression?
200
The distance from any part of a wave to the identicalpart of another wave.
What is wavelength?
200
The unit of measure to describe sound.
What is decibel?
200
The number of waves to pass a point in one second.
What is frequency?
300
The type of wave that is produced by vibrating particles through some type of matter being picked up by a receiver.
What is a sound wave?
300
The change in a wave's frequency because of either an observer or source moving.
What is the Doppler effect?
300
The lowest point in a wave.
What is the trough?
300
Use for Doppler
What is weather forecast?
300
Frequency measurement.
What is hertz (Hz)?
400
Type of wave used for cameras, night vision, and remote controls.
What is are infrared waves?
400
The full range of frequencies, from radio waves to gamma rays, that characterizes light.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
400
The height of a crest or the depth of a trough.
What is amplitude?
400
The received frequency is higher.
What is on the approach of a siren.
400
A wavelength is 10 meters and .5 waves hit every second. Calculate the speed of the waves.
What is 5m/s?
500
Invisible forms of electromagnetic radiation used for sending audio, text, and images.
What are radio waves?
500
The zone where waves are spread apart.
What is rarefaction?
500
The bouncing of a wave off a barrier; as in an echo.
What is reflection?
500
The received frequency is lower.
What is at the passing of a siren?
500
The speed of the waves on a beach are 10 m/s with a wavelength of 5 meters. Calculate the frequency.
What is 2 waves every second?