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Ever wonder how waves work? Then do this stack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mechanical wave | requires a medium in order to transport their energy from one location to another |
| medium | the material a wave is traveling through |
| oscillate | the regular and uniform back-and-forth motion |
| propagate | the way in which waves move from one place to another |
| reflection | the bouncing back of waves off an object |
| absorption | the taking in of matter |
| transverse wave | a wave that moves perpendicular to the direction of the movement of energy |
| crest | the highest point in a wave |
| trough | the lowest point on a wave |
| amplitude | the highest point in a wave above the resting line |
| wavelength (λ) | the distance from crest to crest or trough to trough |
| frequency | a rate of something that repeats |
| proportional | having the same or constant |