Topic 4- Waves Flashcards

1
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What do waves transfer?

A
  • Energy
  • Not matter
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2
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How do we know matter doesn’t move in sound and light waves?

A

Light- particles oscillate up and down
Sound- particles vibrate back and forth

  • Ducks (toy) don’t move in water
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3
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What is frequency?

A

How many waves per second

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4
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What is wavelength?

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Length of a full wave, from peak to peak

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5
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What is amplitude?

A
  • The height, equilibrium to the peak/trough
  • Loudness of a sound wave/ brightness
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6
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What is the period?

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How many seconds it takes one complete wave to pass a point.

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7
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What is the wave velocity?

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  • Speed of the wave in a given
    direction
  • changes in different mediums
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8
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What is a wavefront?

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  • Lines that show the peak of a wave that vibrate in unison.
  • Equal distance from eachother
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9
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What is a longitude wave?

A
  • A wave with areas of compression and rarefaction
  • Oscillations occur parallel to the energy movement
  • sound waves
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10
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What is a transverse wave?

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  • Wave with a peak and trough
  • Oscillations occur perpendicular to the energy movement
  • Light/electromagnetic waves
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11
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What are two examples of longitudinal waves?

A
  • Sound
  • P seismic
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12
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What are three examples of transverse waves?

A
  • Electromagnetic (light)
  • S seismic
  • Water
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13
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What are properties of P seismic waves ?

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  • Can travel through solids and liquid
  • Produced by earthquakes
  • Faster than S seismic
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14
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What are properties of S seismic waves ?

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  • Slower than P seismic
  • Only travel through solids
  • More destructive
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15
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How do we calculate wave speed?

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Wave speed= frequency x wavelength
v=fxλ

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16
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Describe how to measure the velocity of sound in air with humans + what are the issues?

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1) Place two people across a measured distance (e.g 100m)
2) Person A makes a visual and noise making gesture (e.g loud clap)
3) Person B beings top watch when sees and ends when hears
4) Repeat
5) Human reaction times differ for sound + light

17
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Describe how to measure the velocity of sound in air in microphones?

A

1)Place 2 microphones 1 metre apart
2)attach to a computerised ossciloscope
3)Make a loud bang at microphone 1
4)M-1 and M-2 will pick up sounds at different times

18
Q

Describe how to measure the velocity of sound in ripples?

A

1) Time how long it takes one ripple to move between 2 fixed points

19
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Core Practical: Investigate suitibility of equipmenent to find the frequency, speed and wavelength of a wave in a fluid

A

1) Record a ripple tank (frequency =no. of waves per second)
2) Place ruler udner ripple tank + use shadows to find wavelength
3) Wave speed = wavelength x frequency

20
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Core Practical: Investigate suitibility of equipmenent to find the frequency, speed and wavelength of a wave in a solid

A

1) Suspend metal rod with a clamp stand and a rubber band
2) Attach data logger and 2 microphones to each end
3) Start data logger (short time so more precise)
4) Hit one end with hammer
5) Micropohones pick up sound and when it eaches the other end (in data logger) -the time
6) Use distance/time= speed

21
Q

How to calculate depth from time and speed of a wave?

A

(time/2)x speed

22
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What is transmission

A

-Wave passes through an object without being absorbed

23
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What is reflection?

A

-Wave bounces off the boundry between 2 different mediums
-Angle of incidence= Angle of reflection

24
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What is refraction?

A

1) An wave speeds up/ slows down when entering a materil with a different density
2) To keep the same frequency, its wavelength shorterns (all inter-related)

incidence ray, refracted ray and emergant ray

25
Q

Do sound waves speed up or slow down in denser mediums?

A

-speed up
-Longitudinal, closer particles

opposite for light

26
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If a wave slows down it bends which way when refracted?

A

Towards the normal line (90 degrees to object)

e.g light in denser, sound in less dense

27
Q

How do objects interact with different wavelengths?

A

-differently
-some absob/ transmit/ reflect
-e.g why we see colour

28
Q

Parts of the human ear?

A

1) Ear canal
2) Ear drum
3) Ossicles (3 small bones)
4) semicircular canals
5) Cochlea
6) Auditory nerve

29
Q

How do humans hear?

A

-Sound is filtered into + travels along ear canal
-Cuases ear drum to vibrate
-Osiccles and semicircular canals transmit to cochlea
-Cochlea converts into electrical signal
-Across auditory nerve to brain to be interprited

e.g higher frequency = higher pitch

30
Q

Avg hearing range of humans?

A

20 Hz—>20,000 Hz

decreases when older due to wear + tear

31
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What is ultrasound?

A

sound with greater frequency than 20,000 Hz

32
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What is Infrasound?

A

sound with lower frequency than 20 Hz

33
Q

What can we use ultrasound for?

A

-Foetal scanning
-Sonar
-Industry poroducts
-Medical e.g kindey stone breaking

34
Q

How does feotal scanny work?

A

-Use an emitter + reciever on stomach
-Reflected when reach boundry
-processed into 3D image

safer than x-ray as less energetic (lower frequency), non ionising

35
Q

How does ultrasound work for industry work?

A

-Air in any cracks
-Ulttrasound is reflected too ealy
-reflected from boundry of product to air

36
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How does ultrasound work for sonar work?

A
  • Ultrasound emitted then reflected back t boundry to other density objects
37
Q

How does ultrasound work for kidney stones work?

A

-vibrates into smaller peices

non ionising

38
Q

How is infrasound used for discorvering earth’s core?

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-P seismic waves travel through liquid + solid
-S seimsic only though solid
-S seismic found on same half of Earth as earthquake, wherease P everywhere + increased refraction
-Suggests their is liquid outer core
-Region where no waves are detected due to gradual refractions through mantle + liquid outer core

39
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What measures seismic waves?

A

seismometer