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Waves

The study of waves and their porperties

TermDefinition
wave A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter.
mechanical wave A mechanical wave is a wave that travels only through matter. mechanical wave can travel through solids, liquids, andgases, but not through a vacuum.
medium Transverse Waves Two types of mechanical wave are transverse waves and longitudinal waves.
transverse wave A Transverse Waves is a wave which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction
longitudinal wave longitudinal wave causes the particles in a medium to move parallel to the direction the wave travels.
sound wave sound wave is a longitudinal wave that can travel only through matter.
amplitude amplitude of a wave is the maximum distance that the wave moves from its rest position.
Wavelength longitudinal waves are measured from one compression to the next compression or from one rarefaction to the rarefaction
frequency frequency of a wave is the number of times the pattern repeat in given time
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