BWS Physics AQA - Wave Properties

What term describes the distance between two identical points on subsequent waves?

• amplitude

• frequency

• wavelength

• velocity

What term is used for the maximum displacement of a wave from its resting position?

• wavelength

• amplitude

• velocity

• frequency

Longitudinal waves have:

• crests and troughs

• crests and compressions

• compressions and rarefactions

• troughs and rarefactions

Transverse waves have:

• crests and troughs

• troughs and rarefactions

• compressions and contractions

• rarefactions and crests

What is described as the number of complete oscillations of a wave in one second?

• frequency

• amplitude

• wavelength

• velocity

What is the amplitude of this wave?

• 3cm

• -3cm

• 6cm

• 4cm

What is the wavelength of this wave?

• 3cm

• 10cm

• 4cm

• 8cm

Which wave in the diagram has the greatest frequency?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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CCSS.8.EE.B.5

Complete the sentence:

A ray of light passes from one medium to another. In the new medium the light travels slower, at the boundary between the two media light ...

• will be bent toward the normal.

• will always lies along the normal.

• will continue unaffected.

• will have been bent away from the normal.

Light has the lowest velocity in which medium?
flint glass n=1.70
barium glass n=1.60
crown glass n=1.523
water n=1.33
diamond n=2.45

• diamond
• water
• flint glass
• barium glass