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Waves
Light wave and other waves vocab
Question | Answer |
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Crest | The top of a wave |
Trough | The bottom of a wave |
Wavelength | The length of a wave |
Frequency | The amount of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time |
Amplitude | The distance between a waves mid-point and its crest or trough |
Transverse Wave | A wave in which the crests and troughs move at right angles to the direction of the waves travel |
Light | Energy you can see |
Reflection | The bending of light waves as it enters a new substance |
Refraction | The bending of light rays as it enters a new medium |
Color Spectrum | The colors spectrum is just all the colors we see, or ROYGBIV |
ROYGBIV | The colors of the rainbow, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Vilot |