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Wave   A wave is a disturbance that moves through matter or space.  
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Transverse waves   A transverse wave causes particles in matter to move back and forth at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.  
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Congressional wave   A compressional wave causes particles in matter to move back and forth in the same direction in which the wave travels.  
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Wavelength   The distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point moving with the same speed and direction is the wavelength.  
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Frequency   The frequency of a wave is the number of wave lengths that pass by a point each second.  
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Law of reflecton   According to law of fraction the angles that the incoming wave make the normal equals the angle that the outgoing wave makes with the normal.  
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Refraction   Refraction is the change in direction of a wave when it changes speed as it travels from one material to another.  
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Diffraction   waves can change direction which is the bending of waves around an object.  
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opaque   allowing no light to pass through.  
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translucent   allowing light, but not detailed images, to pass through; semitransparent.  
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transparent   allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.  
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reflect   when light bounces off something  
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absorb   when light is going into something  
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transmit   when light goes through something  
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loudness   as it relates to sound  
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pitch   as it relates to sound  
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