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Waves
The study of waves and their properties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| wave | Disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter. |
| Mechanical wave | waves that travel only through matter |
| medium | A material in which a wave travels |
| transverse wave | A wave is a which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels. |
| longitudinal wave | causes the partials in a medium to move parallel to the direction that the wave travels |
| sound wave | a longitudinal wave that can travel only through matter |
| Wavelength | the distance between one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave is wavelength |
| frequency | frequency of a wave is the number of times the pattern repeats in a given time |
| pitch | the perception of how high or low a sound seems . |