Properties of Mechanical Waves Vocab

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The prefix 'trans'

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across

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Parallel means

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Lines or surfaces that are equidistant and never meet

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Perpendicular

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Lines that cross or meet at a right angle.

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Mechanical Waves

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Mechanical waves require a medium to propagate.

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When we study waves, a medium is

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the substance through which a wave travels

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Wave mediums can be

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solids, liquids, gases

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A wave in which the disturbance of the medium moves perpendicular to the direction of wave energy

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Transverse wave

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A wave in which the disturbance of the medium moves parallel to the direction of wave energy

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Compressional wave

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What type of waves are sound waves?

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Sound waves are compressional waves.

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Wave energy always travels away from the

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source