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S8p4a-f cards
Flash cards by Gabriel Hernandez
Term | Definition |
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Wave | any disturbance that transmits energy through matter or space |
Medium | A physical environment that a wave can travel |
Transverse waves | a wave that moves perpendicularly to the way it's moving |
Longitudal wave | wave that has particles that vibrate back and forth along the wave path |
Amplitude | The maximum distance that the particles of a wave can vibrate from their rest position |
Frequency | Waves produced in a given time |
Wave length | Distance from one point in a wave to the next identical point |
Wave speed | Speed a wave travels |
Reflection | When a wave bounces back after hitting a barrier |
Refraction | Turning or bending of a wave |
Diffraction | Spreading and bending of a wave |
Interference | When 2 electromagnetic waves combine to reinforce or cancel each other |
Standing waves | a wave that oscillates in one place and creates stable nodes of Max or zero oscillation |
Resonance | the increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal to the natural damped frequency of the system |