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Light waves
Term | Definition |
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Crest | The high point of a wave |
Trough | the low point of a wave |
Wavelength | Distance between a crest and another crest |
Frequency | The number of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time |
Amplitude | The distance between a wave mid point and its crest or through |
Transverse Waves | A wave in witch the crests and through's move at right angles to the direction of the waves travel |
Light | Is energy we can see |
Reflection | when light bounces of an object |
Refraction | A bending of light rays as the enter a new medium |
Roygbiv | Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Indigo,Violate |
Color spectrum | is the entire range of light wavelengths visible to the human eye |