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Waves Vocab.
Waves2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted. | Compressional Wave |
| The bending of waves. | Diffraction |
| The entire spectrum, considered as a continuum, of all kinds of electric, magnetic, and visible radiation. | Electromagnetic Spectrum |
| The number of cycles or completed alternations per unit time of a wave or oscillation | Frequency |
| They are slightly longer than visible waves, but not as long as microwaves | Infrared Waves |
| Set at a certain point, degree, level, | Pitch |
| The change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different. | Refraction |
| a wave in which the direction of displacement is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, as a surface wave of water. | Transverse Waves |
| light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. | Ultraviolet Wave |
| Any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea: | Wave |
| he distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation. | Wavelength |
| The absolute value of the maximum displacement from a zero value during one period of an oscillation. | Amplitude |
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