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Light waves
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |