DHS PS Ch. 9 - Waves (2015)
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| show | transverse
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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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| show | wave
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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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| What are the highest points of a transverse wave called? | show 🗑
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| show | frequency
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| The lowest points of a transverse wave are called? | show 🗑
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| What is the less dense region of a compressional wave called? | show 🗑
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| Transverse waves do not have? | show 🗑
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| show | decreases
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| show | wave
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| Molecules pass energy on to? | show 🗑
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| show | vibrates
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| What type of waves can travel only through matter? | show 🗑
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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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| show | sound waves
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| The highest point in a wave is called? | show 🗑
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| show | troughs
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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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| How many wavelengths pass a fixed point each second is called? | show 🗑
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| show | hertz (Hz)
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| show | decreases
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| show | vibration of the souce that creates it
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| How fast a wave moves forward is called? | show 🗑
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| Light waves travel _____ than sound waves. | show 🗑
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| Sound waves travel faster in ________ than in a gas. | show 🗑
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| Light waves travel faster in _____ and empty space than in liquids and solids. | show 🗑
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| show | greater
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| Amplitude of compressional waves is related to how? | show 🗑
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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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| show | reflection
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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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| show | angle of reflection
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| show | refraction
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| show | more
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| When a wave passes into a material that slows it down, the wave is bent _________. | show 🗑
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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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| show | around it
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| If the obstacle is larger than the wavelength, the wave _______. | show 🗑
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| The larger the obstacle is compared to the wavelength, the _______ waves will diffract. | show 🗑
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| show | interference
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| Waves pass right through each other and continue in? | show 🗑
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| New, or composite, waves exist only while the two original waves continue to? | show 🗑
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| show | constructive interference
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| show | destructive interference
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| What type of wave is a wave pattern that stays in one place? | show 🗑
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| show | standing waves
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| The places where two waves always cancel each other is called? | show 🗑
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| show | resonance
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| show | closer to the surface than it really is
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| The ability of an object to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequency is called? | show 🗑
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| show | as the temperature of a substance increases, sound waves in it move faster
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| When you squeeze together the coils of a spring and then release the, you a creating what type of wave? | show 🗑
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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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| show | the number of wavelengths that pass a point per second
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| show | vibration of one object causes another object to vibrate at natural frequencies
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| show | energy
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| show | is halved
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| The energy a wave carries is measured by it's? | show 🗑
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| You are creating a wave on a spring. If you start shaking the spring more slowly, the wavelength of the resulting wave will? | show 🗑
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| show | hertz
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