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Question | Answer |
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Diffraction | The change in direction of a wave when it encounters an obstacle or edge |
Refraction | The bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another at an angle. |
Standing Wave | a pattern of vibration the resembles a stationary wave |
Reflection | the bouncing back of a wave when it meets a surface or boundary |
Constructive interference | Interference that increases amplitude |
Destructive interference | interference that decreases amplitude |
Principle of superposition | method of adding crests and troughs of interfering waves together to describe a new wave |
Beats | sounds produced by the inference of sound waves that are used to tune piano |
Interference | The interaction between two waves that meet |
Nodes | On a standing wave where it has mina ble amplitude |
Sound | sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. |
Pitch | A high pitch sound corresponds to a high frequency sound wave and a low pitch |
Infrasonic | Sources of infrasound in nature include volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes and meteorites |
Ultrasonic | The term sonic is applied to ultrasound waves of very high amplitudes. |
Doppler | Waves emitted by an object traveling toward an observer get compressed |
Acoustics | mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. |