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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diffraction | The change in direction of a wave when it encounters an obstacle or edge |
| Refraction | The bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another at an angle. |
| Standing Wave | a pattern of vibration the resembles a stationary wave |
| Reflection | the bouncing back of a wave when it meets a surface or boundary |
| Constructive interference | Interference that increases amplitude |
| Destructive interference | interference that decreases amplitude |
| Principle of superposition | method of adding crests and troughs of interfering waves together to describe a new wave |
| Beats | sounds produced by the inference of sound waves that are used to tune piano |
| Interference | The interaction between two waves that meet |
| Nodes | On a standing wave where it has mina ble amplitude |
| Sound | sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. |
| Pitch | A high pitch sound corresponds to a high frequency sound wave and a low pitch |
| Infrasonic | Sources of infrasound in nature include volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes and meteorites |
| Ultrasonic | The term sonic is applied to ultrasound waves of very high amplitudes. |
| Doppler | Waves emitted by an object traveling toward an observer get compressed |
| Acoustics | mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. |