waves review
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| What is the time it takes to make one complete back and forth vibration called? | period
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| What is the only thing the period of a pendulum depends on? | length
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| What is the back and forth motion of a swinging pendulum called? | simple harmonic motion
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| The highest point in a wave is called a ____. | crest
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| The lowest point in a wave is called a ____. | trough
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| The distance from the midpoint of a wave to its crest or trough is called the ____. | amplitude
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| What is distance between the top of one wave crest to the top of the next wave crest called? | wavelength
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| A ___ is the unit of frequency. | hertz
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| How often a vibration occurs is called its ____> | frequency
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| What is the relationship between the period of a wave and the frequency of the wave? | indirectly proportional
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| What is it that you calculate by multiplying the frequency of a wave by the wavelength of the wave? | wave speed
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| Which type of wave has the motion of the medium moving at right angles to the direction the wave travels? | transverse
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| Which type of wave has the motion of the medium moving in the same direction as the wave travels? | longitudinal
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| Sound is an example of this type of wave. Which type is it? | longitudinal
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| ______ is when 2 or more vibrations overlap each other. | Interference
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| What is the name given to two waves that have their crests and their troughs overlapping each other? | constructive interference
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| What is the name given to two waves in which the crests of one overlaps the troughs of the other? | destructive interference
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| The ______ is the apparent change in frequency due to the motion of the source or the motion of the receiver. | Doppler effect
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| As the frequency of a sound is increased, does the wavelength increase, decrease or stay the same? | decrease
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