Science Flashcards
Medium
A substance through which a wave moves
Mechanical wave
🌊🌊🌊🌊A wave, such as a sound wave or a seismic wave, that transfers kinetic energy through matter. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Waves
Is a disturbance that transfer energy from one place to another.
Transverse wave
A type of wave in which the disturbance moves right angles or perpendicular, to the direction in which the wave travels🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Longitudal wave
A type of wave in which the disturbance moves in the same direction at the wave travels.
Crest
The highest point, or peak, of a wave
Trough
The lowest point, or valley, of a wave
Amplitude
The maximum distance that a disturbance causes a medium to move from its rest position the distance between a crest or trough of a wave and line through the center of a wave
Wavelength
The distance from one wave peak or crest to the next peak or crest. Wavelength can be measured as the distance from any part of one wave to the identical part of the next wave.
Frequency
The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time, usually one second; the number of cycles per unit time.
Reflection
The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier.
Refraction
The bending of a wave as it crosses the boundary between two mediums at an angle other than 90 degrees
Diffraction
The spreading out of waves as they pass through an opening or around the edges of an obstacle.
Inference
The meaning and combining of waves; the adding or subtracting of wave amplitudes that occurs as waves overlap
Crest
The highest point, or peak, of a wave
Trough
The lowest point, or valley, of a wave
Amplitude
The maximum distance that a disturbance causes a medium to move from its rest position the distance between a crest or trough of a wave and line through the center of a wave
Wavelength
The distance from one wave peak or crest to the next peak or crest. Wavelength can be measured as the distance from any part of one wave to the identical part of the next wave.
Frequency
The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time, usually one second; the number of cycles per unit time.
Reflection
The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier.
Refraction
The bending of a wave as it crosses the boundary between two mediums at an angle other than 90 degrees
Diffraction
The spreading out of waves as they pass through an opening or around the edges of an obstacle.
Inference
The meaning and combining of waves; the adding or subtracting of wave amplitudes that occurs as waves overlap
