Wave Mechanics Test

Question 1

What is slave quantified as in the definition of a wave?

Answer 1

The difference between 2 objects

Question 2

What is a mechanical wave?

Answer 2

It requires a medium to travel though

Question 3

What is a medium?

Answer 3

What the wave travels through

Question 4

What is an electromagnetic wave?

Answer 4

It doesn’t require a medium to travel

Question 5

What is the order of the light spectrum?

Answer 5

Radio waves
Microwaves
Infrared
Visible light
Ultraviolet
x-ray
Gamma

Question 6

On the light spectrum what has the lowest frequency?

Answer 6

Radio waves

Question 7

What has the highest frequency?

Answer 7

Gamma rays

Question 8

A wave with low frequency has what kind of waves?

Answer 8

Large, long waves

Question 9

A wave with high frequency had what kind of waves?

Answer 9

Small, short waves

Question 10

What colors does visible light go through?

Answer 10

From red to violet (ROY G BIV)

Question 11

What is a transverse wave??

Answer 11

The motion is perpendicular to the wave

Question 12

What is a longitudinal wave?

Answer 12

Motion if parallel to the motion of the wave

Question 13

What are surface waves?

Answer 13

Motion is both parallel and perpendicular to the motion of the wave

Question 14

Surface waves move in what direction?

Answer 14

Circular

Question 15

Longitudinal waves move in what direction?

Answer 15

Up and down

Question 16

Transverse waves move in what direction?

Answer 16

Left and right(either towards each other or away from each other)

Question 17

What is the amplitude of a wave?

Answer 17

The height of the wave, the amount of vibration

Question 18

What is the wavelength of a wave?

Answer 18

The distance from own crest to the next

Question 19

Amplitude and wave length are both?

Answer 19

Distances

Question 20

What is a period of a wave?

Answer 20

Time for one wavelength to occur

Question 21

What is the frequency of a wave?

Answer 21

The # of wavelengths per second

Question 22

Period and frequency both refer to what?

Answer 22

Time

Question 23

What is the equation for frequency?

Answer 23

1/period

Question 24

What is the equation for wave speed?

Answer 24

Wavelength/period

Question 25

What is a wave?

Answer 25

Energy translated through space it a medium by repeated oscillations

Question 26

What is c?

Answer 26

The speed of the light

Question 27

How do you calculate c?

Answer 27

Wavelength times frequency

Question 28

What is v?

Answer 28

Frequency?

Question 29

How do you calculate v?

Answer 29

Speed of light/ wavelength

Question 30

What is lamda?

Answer 30

Wavelength

Question 31

How do you calculate wavelength?

Answer 31

Speed of light/frequency

Question 32

What is E?

Answer 32

Energy

Question 33

How do you calculate energy?

Answer 33

Planck's constant times frequency

Question 34

The more you shave the shorter the beard is what kind of relationship?

Answer 34

Inverse

Question 35

The more you lift the stronger you are is what kind of relationship?

Answer 35

Direct

Question 36

The longer the wavelength the _____ the frequency?

Answer 36

Lower

Question 37

There is a ____ relationship between wavelength and frequency

Answer 37

Inverse

Question 38

What color has the shortest wavelength?

Answer 38

Blue

Question 39

What color has the longest wavelength?

Answer 39

Red

Question 40

What wave has the longest wavelength?

Answer 40

Radio wave

Question 41

What wave has the shorter wavelength?

Answer 41

Gamma ray

Question 42

The higher the frequency the ___ the energy

Answer 42

Higher

Question 43

The longer the wavelength the ___ the energy

Answer 43

Lower

Question 44

What color has the most energy?

Answer 44

Violet

Question 45

What color has the least energy?

Answer 45

Red

Question 46

There is a ____ relationship between frequency and energy?

Answer 46

Direct

Question 47

There is a ______ relationship between wavelength and energy?

Answer 47

Inverse