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Vocabulary for the upcoming test

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Spectroscopy   The study of light depending on its wavelength  
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Incandescent   To omit light when hot  
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Corona   Crown or gas in the atmosphere  
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Continuous Spectrum   Rainbow, produced by incandescent solid, liquid or gas under high pressure  
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Bright Line Spectrum   Produced by hot incandescent gas under low pressure  
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Dark Line Spectrum   Sun is a giant ball of incandescent gas, gives off continuous spectrum but mercury in the corona leaves a black line if you pull out any color.  
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Doppler Shift   The change in the frequency or wavelength of sound or light due to the source moving.  
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Flourescent   Doesn't give off complete spectrum just gives off mercury and heat.  
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Incandescent   Gives off light when hot and a continuous spectrum  
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Rarefractions   Compressions make rarefractions become compressed and creates more compressions  
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Compressions   Where the medium is bunched together They lose energy as quickly as heat and soundwave dies out  
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Frequency   The number of compressions in a unit of time  
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Infrasonic   Too few compressions so you can't hear  
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Ultrasonic   A range most people can hear.  
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High Frequency   A lot of compressions in a given unit of time  
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Low Frequency   Low but large compressions more energy and lasts a lot longer  
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Wavelength   Distance between two adjacent troughs or crests  
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Amplitude   Half a wavelength  
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Frequency   Number of waves that pass a certain point at a given time  
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Water waves   Wind blows over and they are created  
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Wavebase   Half the wavelength and the point where you stop feeling energy of wind  
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Fetch   How long the wind can blow unobstructed, makes big waves  
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Roaring 40's   No land on fourty degrees south  
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Swells   Waves that are dying down  
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Whitecaps   White on top of waves from strong waves  
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Long shore current   Water runs along the shore crashing in.  
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Riptide   Water returning to the ocean  
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Tsunami   Harbour wave caused by either meteor impact, underwater landslides, earthquakes  
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Lumineferous ether   Medium between two waves Einsteins theory that light has a duel nature light has the ability to travel as a wave and a particle at the same time.  
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Photon   Partical that light is traveling as, a packet of light energy  
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Light   Electromagnetic Radiation  
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Spectrum   Radio Infared Visible UV xrays gammarays  
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