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Mr. Biando's Lab
Mr. Biando's Lab - Waves Interactions
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| The bouncing back of a ray of light, sound, or heat when the ray hits a surface that it does not go through. | Reflection |
| A reflected sound wave. | Echo |
| The bending of a wave as the wave passes between two substances in which the speed of the wave differs. | Refraction |
| The spreading out or separating out of amounts. | dispersed |
| A change in the direction of a wave when the wave finds an obstacle or an edge, such as an opening. | diffraction |
| The combination of two or more waves that result in a single wave. | Interference |
| When the crests of one wave overlaps the crests of another wave or waves and increase the amplitude. | Constructive interference |
| When the crests of one wave and the troughs of another wave overlap cancelling each other out. | Destructive interference |
| A pattern of vibration that stimulates a wave that is standing still. | Standing wave |
| A phenomenon that occurs when two objects naturally vibrate at the same frequency; the sound produced by one object causes the other to vibrate. | Resonance |
| The frequencies at which standing waves are made. | Resonant frequencies |