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Chapter 14 voca
Question | Answer |
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Wave | a periodic disturbance in a solid, liquid, or a gas as energy is transmitted a medium |
medium | a physical environment in which phenomena occurs |
Mechanical Wave | a wave that requires a medium through whih travels |
Electromagnetic wave | a wave that consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields which radiate outward at the speed of light |
transverse wave | a wave in which the particles of the medium more perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling |
longitudinal wave | a qave in which the particles of the medium vibrate parallel to the direction wave motion |
Crest | the highest point of the wave |
trough | the lowest point of the wave |
amplitude | the maximum distance that the particles of a waves medium vibrate from the rest position |
wave length | the distance from any point on a wave to an identicle point on the next wave |
period | the tie that it takes a complete cycle or wave oscillation to occur |
frequency | the number of cycles or vibration per unit of time |
dropper effect | an observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or observer is moving |
reflection | the bouncing back of a ray of light, sounds, or heat when the ray hits the surface |
difflaction | a change in the direction of a wabe when the wave finds an obsticle or an edgesuch as an opening |
refraction | the bending of waves when they pass from one medium into another |
interference | the combination of twoor more waves of the same frequency that results in a single wave |
constructibe interference | wavaes combine so that the resulting wave is bigger |
destructive interference | waves combine so that the resulting wave is smaller than the largest |
standing wave | a pattern of vibration that stimulates a wave that is standing still |