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Bader Chapter 25 Vocab

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Vibration   An oscillation, or repeating back and forth motion, about an equilibrium position.  
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Wave   A disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that is transmitted progressively from one place to the next with no actual transport of matter.  
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Period   The time required for a pendulum to make one to and fro swing. In general, the time required to complete a single cycle.  
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Simple harmonic motion   The back and forth vibratory motion of a swinging pendulum.  
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Sine curve   A curve whose shape represents the crests and troughs of a wave, as traced out by a swinging pendulum that drops a trail of sand over a moving conveyor belt.  
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Crest   One of the places in a wave where the wave is highest or the disturbance is greatest.  
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Trough   One of the places in a wave where the wave is the lowest, or the disturbance is greatest, in the opposite direction from a crest.  
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Amplitude   The distance from th midpoint to the maximum (crest) of a wave, or, equivalently, from the midpoint to the minimum.  
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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.  
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Frequency   The number of events (cycles, vibrations, oscillations, or any repeated event)) per time; measured in hertz. Inverse of the period.  
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Hertz   The SI unit of frequency. One hertz (Hz) is one cycle per second.  
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Transverse wave   A wave with a vibration at right angles to the direction the wave is traveling.  
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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.  
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Interference pattern   A pattern formed by the overlapping of two or more waves that arrive in a region at the same time.  
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Constructive interference   Addition of two or more waves when wave crests overlap to produce a resulting wave of increased amplitude.  
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Destructive interference   Combination of waves where crests of one wave overlap troughs of another, resulting in a wave of decreased amplitude.  
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Out of phase   Term applied to two waves for which the crest of one wave arrives at a point at the same time that a trough of the second wave arrives. Their effects cancel each other.  
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In phase   Term applied to two or more waves whose crests (and troughs) arrive at a place at the same time, so that their effects reinforce each other.  
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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 incident (original) wave and a reflected wave.  
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Node   Any part of a standing wave that remains stationary.  
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Antinodes   The positions on a standing wave where the largest amplitudes occur.  
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Doppler effect   The apparent change in frequency of a wave due to the motion of the source or of the receiver.  
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Blue shift   An increase in the measured frequency of light from an approaching source; called the blue shift because the apparent increase toward the high-frequency, or blue, end of the color spectrum. Also occurs when an observer approaches a source.  
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Red shift   A decrease in the measured frequency of light (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.  
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Bow wave   The V-shaped wave produced by an object moving on a liquid surface faster than the wave speed.  
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Shock wave   A cone-shaped wave produced by an object moving at supersonic speed through a fluid.  
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Sonic boom   The sharp crack heard when the shock wave that sweeps behind a supersonic aircraft reaches its listener.  
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