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What is a wave?

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A wave is a disturbance that carries energy from one place to another. A wave disrupts the particles by moving them back and forth or up and down

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What is a mechanical wave?

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Waves in which matter moves back and forth in repeating patterns. In a mechanical wave, the disturbance is the motion of the particles of matter.

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What is a Longitudinal wave

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A wave that travels in the same direction as the vibration or the disturbance that produce it.

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What is a transverse wave?

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Travels perpindicular to the waves disturbance/cause

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Wavelength

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A wavelength is the distance from one crest to another

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What is the length from one compression to another?

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The wavelength

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What is a waves compression

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When the coils are close together on a slinky (compressed together)

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What is a rarefaction?

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When the coils are being pulled apart/ they are spread out.

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What is the distance between 2 crests?

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Wavelength

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What is the highest point of a wave?

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The crest

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What is the middle of a crest and trough?

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The equilibrium/ resting position

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What is the distance between the crest or trough to the resting position?

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The aplitude

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The bottom/ lowest point of a wave is..?

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The trough

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Define amplitude

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The distance between the highest crest and the equilibrium

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What is a wave showing high amplitude?

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A very high wave

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What is a wave with a low amplitude

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A very short wave

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Define frequency

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The number of vibrations in a short amount of time

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What is a wave showing high frequency

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A very skinny and tall wave

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What is a wave with a low frequency?

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A very low or no movement wave

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What is the difference between a longitudinal and tranversal wave?

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The difference is how they react to the disturbance

21
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How are longitudinala nd transversal waves similar?

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They both originate from a disturbance and they are both mechanical waves

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What are the 4 wave behaviors?

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-diffraction
-absorbption
-transmitted
-reflected

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