Waves Vocabulary
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- Q1a type of mechanical wave in which matter in the medium moves forward and backward along the same direction that the wave travelscompressional wave30s
- Q2waves that can travel through space where there is no matterelectromagnetic waves30s
- Q3waves that use matter to move energymechanical waves30s
- Q4a type of MECHANICAL WAVE in which the energy of the wave makes the medium move up and down or back and forth at right angles to the direction the wave travelstransverse wave30s
- Q5regular disturbances that carry energy without carrying matterwaves30s
- Q6one half the distance between a crest and a trough in a transverse wave and how close together the particles of the medium are in a compressional waveamplitude30s
- Q7the number of wavelengths that pass a given point in one secondfrequency30s
- Q8the distance from the top or bottom of one crest or trough to the top or bottom of the next crest or trough in a transverse way and the distance between the center of one compression and the center of the next compression in a compressional wavewavelength30s
- Q9the bending of waves around a barrierdiffraction30s
- Q10the ability of two waves to combine and make a new wave when the overlapinterference30s
- Q11occurs when a waves hits an object or surface and BOUNCES offreflection30s
- Q12the bending of a wave as it moves from one medium to anotherrefraction30s