| Question | Answer |
| Amplitude
unit label for amplitude | max deflection (biggest x value)
meters |
| periodic motion
period | any motion that repeats so it has a definite period.
time for on event |
| compression | closer part of longitude |
| unit label for period
unit label for frequency | (T)
(F) |
| frequency
Equation for period to frequency | # events /seconds Hz (T= 1/f)
(T=1/f) |
| rarefaction | more spread out part of a longitude |
| crest
trough | top of transverse
bottom of transverse |
| wavelength | distance between |
| variables that will change the period of a pendulum | a. length of string
b. gravity
c. release point
d. whether you push it or drop it |
| transverse particle motion is ______to a wave motion | longitudinal particle motion is _____to wave motion. |
| a low point of a wave is called a | trough |
| a crest is the ______of a wave | top |
| when the particles of the medium move back and forth along the direction of the wave motion, the wave is a | longitudinal wave |
| when the particles of a medium are far apart , that part of the wave is called a | wave length |
| compression is part of the medium where particles are___ | closer together |
| a wave in which the particles of the medium are at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels is called a ____ | transverse wave |
