Wave vocabulary

when one object vibrating at the same natural frequency of a second object forces that second object into vibrational motion.

• Crest

• Echo

• Resonance

• Hertz

is a propagating dynamic disturbance of one or more quantities, sometimes as described by a wave equation. In physical waves, at least two field quantities in the wave medium are involved.

• Crest

• Wave

• radiant energy

• opaque

waves that are created as a result of vibrations between an electric field and a magnetic field.

• Wavelength

• Medium

• Trough

• Electromagnetic Wave

the process by which a beam of light or other system of waves is spread out as a result of passing through a narrow aperture or across an edge, typically accompanied by interference between the wave forms produced.

• Diffraction

• Pitch

• Light

• Sound wave

A substance that makes possible the transfer of energy from one location to another, especially through waves.

• Doppler effect

• Compression

• Medium

• Light

is a point on the wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum.

• Crest

• Hertz

• Light

• Echo

an elongated region of low atmospheric pressure

• Wave

• Trough

• Echo

• Light

the distance between two successive crests or troughs of a wave.

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Light

• Pitch

the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

• Frequency

• Hertz

• Sound Wave

• Motion

an oscillation of matter, and therefore transfers energy through a medium.

• Transverse Wave

• Doppler effect

• Echo

• Mechanical Wave