Wave Properties Review

What is a wave?

• A disturbance that transports through a medium transporting energy from one place to another without moving matter

• Number of waves per second

• Seconds per wave

• Height of the wave

What is the medium of a wave?

• The center line

• The thing that the wave travels through

• The height of the wave

• The length from crest to crest

What is wavelength?

• The number of waves per second

• The number of seconds per wave

• The length of a wave from point to corresponding point

• The height of a wave

What is frequency?

• Waves per second

• Height of a wave

• Length of a wave

• Seconds per wave

What is the period of a wave?

• Amount of time between waves

• Waves per second

• Length of a wave

• Height of a wave

What is the amplitude of a wave?

• Length of the wave

• Waves per second

• What a wave travels through

• Height of a wave

What is the crest of a wave?

• High point on a wave

• Low point on a wave

What is the trough of a wave?

• High point of a wave

• Low point of a wave

What is a transverse wave?

• Wave where energy travels perpendicular to the direction of the wave's motion

• Wave where energy travels parallel to the direction of the wave's motion

• Wave that carries light

• Wave that carries sound

What is a longitudinal wave

• A wave where energy moves perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave

• A wave where energy moves parallel to the direction of the motion of the wave

• A wave that carries light

• A wave that carries sound