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Waves
The study of waves and their properties
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wave | a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter |
| Mechanical Wave | a wave that travels only through matter |
| Medium | a material in which a wave travels |
| Transverse wave | a wave in which disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels |
| Longitudinal wave | a wave that causes the particles in a medium to move parallel to the direction that the waves travel |
| Sound wave | a longitude wave that can travel only through matter |
| amplitude | the maximum distance that the waves moves from its position |
| wavelegth | the distance between one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave |
| frequency | the number of times the pattern repeats in a given time |
| pitch | how high or low something |