Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Vocab

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
Vibration   An oscillation or repeating back and forth motion about an wquilibrium position  
🗑
Wave   A disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that is transmitted progresively from one place to the next with no actual transport of matter  
🗑
Period   The time required for a complete orbit. The time required for a pendulum to make one to and fro swing in general the time required to complete a single cycle  
🗑
Simple Harmonic Motion   The back and forth vibratory motion of a swining pendulum  
🗑
Spine Curve   A curve whose shape represents the crests and troughs of a wave, as traces out by a swining pendulum that drops a trail of sand over a moving conveyor belt  
🗑
Crest   One of the places in a wave where the wave is highest or the disturbance is greatest  
🗑
Trough   One of the places in a wave where the wave is lowest, or the disturbance is greatest in the opposite direction from a crest  
🗑
Amplitude   The distance from the midpoint to the maximum (crest) of a wave or,ewuivalently, from the midpoint to the minimum (trough)  
🗑
wavelength   The distance from the top of the crest of a wave to the top of the following crest, or equivalently the distance between successive identical parts of the wave  
🗑
Frequency   The number of events (cycles,vibratory,oscill actions or any repeated event) per time measured in hertz or events per time inverse of period  
🗑
Hertz   the SI unit of frequency one hertz (Hz) is one cycle per second  
🗑
Transverse wave   A wave with vibration at right angles to the direction the wave is traveling  
🗑
Longitudinal wave   a wave in which the vibration is in the same direction as that in which the wave is traveling rather than at right angles to it  
🗑
INterference pattern   A pattern formed by the overlapping of two or more waves that arrive in a region at the same time  
🗑
Constructive Interference   Addition of two or more waves when wave crests overlap to produce a resulting wave of increased amplitude  
🗑
Destructive interference   Combination of waves where crests of one wave overlap troughs of another resulting in a wave of decreased amplitude  
🗑
Out of phase   Term applied to two waves for which the crest of one wave arrives at a poit at the same time that a trough of the second wave arrives their effects cancel each other  
🗑
In phase   Term applied to two or more waves whos crests and troughs arrive at a place at the same time so that thier effects reinforce each other  
🗑
Standing wave   Wave in which parts of the wave remain stationary and the wave appears not to be traveling. THe result of interference between an incidennt (original) wave and a reflected wave  
🗑
Node   Any part of a standing wave that remains stationary  
🗑
Antinodes   The positions on a standing wave where the largests amplitudes occur  
🗑
Blue Shift   An increase in the measured frequency of light from an approahing source called the blue shift because the apparent increase is toward the high frquency or blue end of the color spectrum also occurs when an observer apporaches a source  
🗑
Red Shift   A decrease in the measured frequency of lght or other radiation from a receding source called the red shift because the decrease is toward the low frequency or red end of the color spectrum  
🗑
Bow wave   The v shaped wave produced by an object moving on a liquid surface faster than the wave speed  
🗑
Shock wave   A cone shaped wave produced by an object moving at a supersonic speed through a fluid  
🗑
Sonic Boom   The sharp crack heard when the shock wave that sweeps behind a supersonic aircraft reaches the listner  
🗑
vibration   repeating back and fourth motion  
🗑
Wave   A disturbance that is transmitted from one place to the next with no acual transport of matter alos a wiggle in time and space  
🗑
Light and sound   2 forms of energy that move through space as waves  
🗑
The period of the pendulum depends only on the length of a pendulum and the cceleration of gravity    
🗑
Cyxle   one complete back and fourth motion  
🗑
Period   time for one cycle  
🗑
does not depend on the weight or size of the swing...but does depend on the length of the pendulum    
🗑
The source of all waves is something that vibrates    
🗑
Simple Harmonic Motion   Back and fourth vibration motion (oscillations)  
🗑
Sine Curve   Pictorial representation of a wave formed by swining a pendulum or bouncing spring  
🗑
Wavelength symbol   λ  
🗑
Frequency   # of vibrations in a given time usually one second  
🗑
Symbol of frequency   F  
🗑
Symbol for period   T  
🗑
What is the frequency in vibrtions per second of a 100 Hz wave?   A 100 Hz wave vibrates 100 times 10  
🗑
transverse wave   the motiom of the medium is at right angles to the direction of the wave motion  
🗑
longitudnin    
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: 16_msteinlage
Popular Physics sets