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What is one way energy may be transferred between stores?

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Waves

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What are waves?

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OSCILLATIONS (the repeated fluctuations above and below the same position) or VIBRATIONS about a REST POSITION

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What are mechanical waves?

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Cause OSCILLATIONS of PARTICLES in a SOLID, LIQUID or GAS and MUST have a MEDIUM to TRAVEL THROUGH

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What are electromagnetic waves?

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Cause OSCILLATIONS in ELECTRICAL and MAGNETIC FIELDS

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What are longitudinal waves?

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VIBRATIONS which are PARALLEL to the DIRECTION of WAVE TRAVEL

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What are transverse waves?

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VIBRATIONS which MOVE at RIGHT ANGLES to the DIRECTION of WAVE TRAVEL

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Why can waves be used to transfer energy?

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What are some examples of transverse waves?

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-Light

-Water Waves

-Waves on a string

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What are some examples of longitudinal waves?

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-Sound Waves

-Shock waves

-Waves in a Spring

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What is one thing waves don’t transfer?

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Matter (subatomic particles, atoms etc)

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What is meant by rest position?

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The UNDISTURBED POSITION of PARTICLES or FIELDS where they ARE NOT VIBRATING

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What is meant by the displacement of a wave?

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The DISTANCE that a CERTAIN POINT in the MEDIUM has MOVED from its REST POSITION

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What is meant by the peak of a wave?

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The HIGHEST POINT ABOVE a REST POSITION

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What is meant by the trough of a wave?

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The LOWEST POINT BELOW the REST POSITION

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What is meant by the amplitude of a wave?

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The MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT of a POINT of a WAVE from its REST POSITION

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What is meant by the wavelength of a wave?

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The DISTANCE COVERED by a FULL CYCLE of the WAVE which is USUALLY MEASURED from PEAK to PEAK

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What is meant by time period?

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The TIME TAKEN for a FULL CYCLE of the WAVE which is USUALLY MEASURED from PEAK to PEAK or TROUGH to TROUGH

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What is meant by frequency?

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The NUMBER of WAVES PASSING a POINT EACH SECOND

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What do longitudinal waves show?

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What is the difference between longitudinal and transverse waves?

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What are some examples of evidence that longitudinal waves transport sound waves through air and not the air itself?

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What are some examples of evidence that transverse waves don’t move the water itself when it ripples?

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Ask AI to generate a wave motion image and describe it in terms of amplitude, wavelength, frequency and period

(BLURT QUESTION)

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How is the unit for period?

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What is the unit for frequency?
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How do you calculate period?
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What equation should the equation for period be applied to on the equation sheet?
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What is the unit for wave speed?
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What is the unit for frequency?
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What is the unit for wave length?
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How do you calculate wave speed?
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What is a spectrum in terms of waves?
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What kind of spectrum do electromagnetic waves form?
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How many different types of electromagnetic waves are there?
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How are the different electromagnetic wages grouped?
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Why do different waves have different wavelengths?
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What is the order of waves from shortest to longest wavelength?
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What is a mnemonic to remember the order of electromagnetic waves from shortest to longest wavelength?
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How does velocity change in electromagnetic waves?
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Why can our eyes only detect limit a limited range of electromagnetic waves?
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What are three things all electromagnetic waves do?
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What is the correlation between wavelength, frequency and energy?
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What are frequencies also known as?
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What are radio waves used for?
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Why are radio waves ideal for communications?
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How can radio waves be produced?
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What is a conductor?
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What is an alternating current?
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Why is this electrical current the same as radio waves?
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How are messages transferred through these electromagnetic waves?
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What are some uses of microwaves?
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Why are microwaves ideal for heating food?
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How do microwaves heat food?
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Why are microwaves idea for satellite communications?
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What is infrared light used for?
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Why is infrared radiation useful for heating?
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What is better at heating, infrared radiation or microwaves?
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Why is infrared radiation useful for detecting people in the dark?
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Why can infrared radiation detect any object?
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What are some uses of visible light?
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How does fibre optic communication work?
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Why is ultraviolet light so dangerous?
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What can ultraviolet light in sunlight causes?
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What is an example of a fluorescent substance?
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How do fluorescent substances make ultraviolet light useful?
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What san changes in atomic nuclei cause?
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What are gamma rays?
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Why are gamma rays useful for internal imaging?
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Why are X-rays used to help identify broken bones?
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What are both ultraviolet waves and x-rays and gamma-rays forms of?
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What is ionising radiation?
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What hazardous effects have ultraviolet waves have on the human body?
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What hazardous effects have x-rays have on the human body?
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What is radiation dose?
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What is radiation dose measured in?
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What is the conversion rate from milli sieverts to sieverts?
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What is background radiation?
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What is the correlation between background radiation and radiation dose?
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What are some sources of background radiation?
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What factors affect the level of background radiation and radiation dose?
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What is meant by the reflection of waves?
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What does the reflection of sound cause?
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What does the law of reflection state?
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What is an example of the law of reflection?
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What is the angle of incidence?
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How are the angles of incidence and the angle of reflection measured?
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What is the normal line?
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Draw a diagram of a water wave and a light wave being reflected at a barrier (BLURT QUESTION)
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What is meant by a plane?
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