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Wave Types
Wave Parts
Sound Waves
EM Spectrum
Electricity
Wave Interactions
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Sound travels as this.
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What is compressional wave?
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Wave vibration moves perpendicular to the
direction of the wave
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What is a transverse wave ?
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Light travels as this
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What is a transverse wave?
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Wave vibration move in the same direction as the
wave.
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What is a compressional wave?
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Sound travels as this type of wave
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What is a compressional wave?
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A wave that requires a medium
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What is a mechanical wave?
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The top of a transverse
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What is a crest?
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The part of the wave that makes a sound louder
and a light brighter
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What is amplitude?
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The distance from one point on a wave to same
point on the next wave.
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What is wavelength?
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The number of times a wave passes by in one second
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What is a frequency?
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Hertz (Hz)
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What is the SI unit for frequency?
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The less dense area of a compressional wave
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What is the rarefaction?
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The bouncing of a wave off of a surface
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What is reflection?
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The bending of a wave as it passes through
different mediums due to density differences
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What is refraction?
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The bending of a wave around an object or through
an opening
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What is diffraction?
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Vibration stimulated in an object by the
absorption of energy from another objects
vibration
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What is resonance?
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Two or more waves overlap each other and cancel
each other out
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What is destructive interference?
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Two waves overlap each other and combine to
increase their energy
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What is constructive interference?
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Used to locate objects under water
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What is sonar?
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Used by bats to locate objects they cannot see
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What is echolocation?
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An echoing effect caused by many reflections of
sound
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What is reverberation?
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What a sound engineer studies
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What is acoustics?
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20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
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What is the hearing range of a healthy human ear?
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Sound above 20,000 Hz
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What is ultrasonic?
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The part of the spectrum that allows humans to
see
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What is visible light?
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Frequency x Wavelength
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What is the velocity of a wave?
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Microwave signals transmitted from satellites to
determine location and direction
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What is the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
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The velocity of a wave that has a frequency of 50
Hz and a wavelength of 2 meters
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What is 100 m/sec?
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The specific frequency used by a radio station to
transmit its signal
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What is a carrier wave?
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Massless particle that electromagnetic waves are
composed of

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What is a photon?
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Circuit with only one loop
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What is a series circuit?
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Circuit with two or more branched loops
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What is a parallel circuit?
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Type of circuit that allows electricity to flow
even if one component in the circuit is removed
(not including the energy source)
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What is a parallel circuit?
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The resistance of a circuit that a voltage of 110
V and a current of 5 A.
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What is 22 Ohms?
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Type of circuit that will cause lights on the
circuit to be dimmer.
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What is a series circuit?
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The current produced in a circuit that has a 9 V
battery and a 3 ohm resistance
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What is 3 amps?
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The type of light beam that is produced by a laser
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What is coherent light?
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On a wave diagram, the distance from the line of
origin to the crest or trough of the wave
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What is the amplitude?
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For a reflected wave, the angle of incidence must
equal the angle of reflection
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What is the Law of Reflection?
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The change in pitch or wave frequency due to a
moving source
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What is the Doppler Effect?
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Type of EM wave that has a frequency greater than
visible light but less than X-rays or gamma-rays
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What is ultraviolet radiation (UV)?
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Electric current produced by moving a coiled wire
through a magnetic field or moving a magnet
through a coiled wire
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What is electromagnetic induction?