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Waves
Question | Answer |
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What is a disturbance that carries energy from one place to another? | wave |
What does a wave carry? | energy |
Waves DO NOT carry?? | matter |
Waves that must have a medium to travel? | mechanical |
What are waves that can travel without a medium? | electromagnetic |
When waves bounce off a surface it is called... | reflection |
When a wave bends and changes speed from passing from one medium to another, it is called... | refraction |
The bending of waves around an object is called | diffraction |
Wave speed is measured in.... | hertz |
The amount of waves that past a point in one second and is measured in hertz is called... | frequency |
The distance between one point on a wave and the exact same place on the next wave measures.... | wavelength |