What is a surface wave?
8 - Mechanical Waves Vocab 1

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A wave in which the matter moves in a circular pattern that is sometimes parallel and sometimes perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels.
2.
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What is a mechanical wave?
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A wave in which particles of matter move back and forth.
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What is a transverse wave?
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A wave in which the matter moves in a pattern perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels.
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What is a wave cycle?
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One complete motion of the repeating pattern of a wave.
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What is a medium in the context of waves?
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The matter that a mechanical wave travels through.
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What is a longitudinal wave?
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A wave in which the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the wave's travel.
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What is wavelength?
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The distance between two consecutive points that are in phase on a wave, such as crest to crest or trough to trough.
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