Waves
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| Wave | Something that moves through matter or space.
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| Transverse wave | Causes Particles to move back and Forth (Right angles)
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| Compressional Wave | Causes particles to move back and forth (the same direction )
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| Wavelength | The distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point moving with the same speed and direction
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| Frequency | The number of wavelengths that pass by a pony each second
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| Law of Reflection | The angle the the incoming wave makes with the normal equal the angle that the outgoing wave makes with the normal.
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| Diffraction | The bending of waves around a object.
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| Refraction | The change in direction of a wave when it changes speed as it travels.
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| Amplitude | The height of a wave.
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| Crest | The top of the wave
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| Rarefaction | When the molecules of a waves expand and have space.
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| Congressional | When the molecules of a wave are forced or pressed together
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| Trough | The lower ends of a wave
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| Opaque | Objects allow no light to pass
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| Translucent | Allow some light to pass objects
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| Transparent | Nearly all light can pass thought objects
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| Reflect | To throw back light
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| Absorb | Take in light
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| Transmit | Causes something to pass on from one place or person to another.
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| Matter/Medium | intermediate course through which signals or waves can travel through , and a physical substance.
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| Energy Transfer | The transfer of energy from one object or material to another.
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| Nuclear reactions | he process in which two nuclei
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| Vibration | Something moving in motion
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| Energy | The property of matter and radiation to perform work
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| Sound Waves | A type of wave that is compressional
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| Sun's Radion | Radiant energy emitted by the sun from a nuclear reaction that creates electromagnetic energy
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| Water wave | A gravity wave on water
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| Seismic Waves | Earthquakes are an example.
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| Light energy | Radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic waves.
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| Light ray | Is a narrow beam of light that travels in a straight line
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