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waves
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| wave | a wave is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter |
| mechanical waves | a wave that travels only through matter |
| medium | a material in which travels is called a |
| transverse waves | is a wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction |
| longitudinal waves | causes the particles in a medium to move parallel to the direction that the waves travel |
| sound waves | is a longitudinal wave that travels only through matter |
| amplitude | is the maximum distance that the wave moves from its rest point |
| wavelegnth | the distance between one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave |
| frequency | The frequency of a wave is the number of times the pattern repeats in a giving time |
| pitch | the perception of how high or low a sound seem |