DHS PS Ch. 9 - Waves (2015)
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| What type of waves does matter in the medium move back and forth at right angles to the direction the wave travels? | show 🗑
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| A material (solid, liquid, or gas) through which a wave transfers energy is called a? | show 🗑
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| show | seismic wave
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| show | vacuum
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| show | longitudinal
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| A repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or open space is a ______? | show 🗑
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| All waves carry _______ . | show 🗑
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| In what type of waves does matter in the medium move back and forth and in the same direction the wave travels? | show 🗑
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| show | light
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| show | water waves
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| What is a measure of the energy in a wave? | show 🗑
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| show | crests
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| show | frequency
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| show | troughs
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| show | rarefaction
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| Transverse waves do not have? | show 🗑
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| As a frequency increases, wavelength _____? | show 🗑
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| show | wave
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| show | neighboring molecules
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| show | vibrates
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| show | mechanical waves
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| show | a wave on a rope
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| What type of waves does the matter in the medium move in the same direction that the wave travels? | show 🗑
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| An example of a longitudinal wave is? | show 🗑
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| The highest point in a wave is called? | show 🗑
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| The lowest points in a wave is called? | show 🗑
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| The distance between one point in the wave and the nearest point just like it is called? | show 🗑
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| show | frequency
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| Frequency is expressed in? | show 🗑
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| As frequency increases, the wavelength? | show 🗑
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| The frequency of a wave equals the rate of? | show 🗑
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| How fast a wave moves forward is called? | show 🗑
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| show | faster
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| Sound waves travel faster in ________ than in a gas. | show 🗑
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| show | gases
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| The more energy a wave carries, its amplitude will be? | show 🗑
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| show | tightly the medium is pushed together at the compression
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| The denser the compressions, the ______ the amplitude is and the more energy the wave carries | show 🗑
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| The less dense the rarefactions, the ______ the amplitude and the more energy the wave carries. | show 🗑
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| show | Light waves travel much faster than sound waves
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| show | when a wave strikes an object and bounces off of it
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| What types of waves can be reflected? | show 🗑
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| The angle of incidence of a wave is always equal to the angle of? | show 🗑
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| show | normal
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| The angle formed by the wave striking the surface and the normal is called? | show 🗑
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| The angle formed by the reflected wave and the normal is called? | show 🗑
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| The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium to another is called a? | show 🗑
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| The greater the change in speed is, the _____ a wave bends. | show 🗑
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| show | toward the normal
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| When a wave passes into a material that speeds it up, the wave is bent __________. | show 🗑
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| show | diffraction
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| If the obstacle is smaller than the wavelength, the wave diffracts? | show 🗑
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| show | reflects instead of diffracting
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| The larger the obstacle is compared to the wavelength, the _______ waves will diffract. | show 🗑
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| The ability of two or more waves to combine and form a new wave is called? | show 🗑
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| show | their original direction
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| show | overlap
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| show | constructive interference
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| This is when waves subtract from each other? | show 🗑
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| show | standing waves
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| What type of waves from when waves of equal wavelength and amplitude that are traveling in opposite directions continuously interfere with each other? | show 🗑
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| show | nodes
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| show | resonance
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| If you stand next to a swimming pool and see an object under water, it will seem to be? | show 🗑
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| show | resonance
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| How does temperature of a medium affect the speed of sound waves? | show 🗑
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| show | longitudinal
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| A tuning fork starts to vibrate when a certian note is played on the piano. This is an example of? | show 🗑
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| Frequency is best explained as? | show 🗑
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| Resonance refers to an effect in which the ? | show 🗑
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| A wave will travel only as long as it has what to carry it? | show 🗑
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| For a given wave, if the frequency doubles, the wavelength? | show 🗑
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| The energy a wave carries is measured by it's? | show 🗑
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| show | increase
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| show | hertz
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