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| Force | Push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object. |
| Work | Move or cause to move gradually or with difficulty into another position, typically by means of constant movement or pressure. |
| Wave | A periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance that may be propagated without net movement of the particles, such as in the passage of undulating motion, heat, or sound. |
| Medium | A substance that makes possible the transfer of energy from one location to another, especially through waves. |
| Crest | A crest is a point on the wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum. |
| Trough | A trough is the opposite of a crest, so the minimum or lowest point in a cycle. |
| Longitudinal | Longitudinal waves are also called compressional waves or compression waves, because they produce compression and rarefaction when traveling through a medium. |
| Compression | A compression is a region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are closest together. |
| Rarefaction | Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. |
| Transverse | A Transverse wave is always characterized by particle motion being perpendicular to wave motion. |
| Mechanical | The branch of physics that deals with the motion of material objects. |
| Electromagnetic | The waves that are propagated by simultaneous periodic variations of electric and magnetic field intensity. |
| Amplitude | The maximum displacement or distance moved by a point on a vibrating body or wave measured from its equilibrium position. It is equal to one-half the length of the vibration path. |
| Wavelength | A sinusoidal wave is the spatial period of the wave, the distance over which the wave's shape repeats, and the inverse of the spatial frequency. |
| Frequency | The number of crests of a wave that move past a given point in a given unit of time. |
| Hertz | A unit of frequency, defined as the number of complete cycles of a periodic signal that take place in one second |
| Wave speed | Wave speed is the speed at which a wave travels. Wave speed is related to wavelength, frequency, and period by the equation wave speed = frequency x wavelength. |
| Power | Power is the rate of doing work, the unit of power is the joule per second (J/s). |
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