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Mechanical vs EM Wav
Mechanical vs EM Waves
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A state of matter that mechanical waves travel through. (Ex. gas, liquid, soild, and plasma) | Medium |
| A form of radiation travels through the universe. | Electromagnetic wave |
| When a wave must have a medium to travel. (Ex. water waves, sound waves, and earthquake wave.) | Mechanical wave |
| A wave that is a 90 dregree angle or is a right angle pluse. (Ex wave on a string, electomagnetic waves, and stadium and human waves.) | Transverse wave |
| Run parallel to the medium. (Ex. sound waves, vibration of spring, the fluctations in a gas.) | Longitudinal wave |
| The height of waves. | Ampliutde |
| How many waves past a certain point in 1 second. | Frequency |
| The distance between two consecutive crest or troughts. | Wavelength |
| The part in the longitude thats pushed together. | Compression |
| When light dends. | Rarefaction |