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Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mechanical waves | requires a medium in order to transport its 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 on a wave |
| Trough | The lowest point on a wave |
| Amplitude | The highest point in a wave above the resting line |
| Wavelength | The distance from crest to crest or trough to trough |
| Frequency | A rate of something that repeats |
| Proportional | Having the same or constant ratio |