Properties of Waves

What is frequency?

• the highest point of a transverse wave

• the number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.

• the distance between two identical parts of a wave from crest to crest

• the material that a wave travels through

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What is amplitude?

• the material that a wave travels through

• the height of a transverse wave.

• the distance waves travels in time.

• the highest point of a transverse wave.

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A crest is the highest point of a transverse wave

• True

• False

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a trough is the lowest point of a transverse wave

• true

• false, it is the highest

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what is a wavelength?

• the distance a wave travels in time.

• the distance between two identical parts of a wave from crest to crest

• the height of the transverse wave from crest to trough

• part of a longitudinal wave where particles of the medium are farther apart

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What is speed (in terms of waves)?

• the lowest point of a transverse wave.

• the distance a wave travels in a time

• a wave that moves in right angles to the direction the wave travels in

• the material through which a wave travels

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what is a compression?

• the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together

• the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are farther apart

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what is a rarefaction?

• the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together

• the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are farther apart

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what is medium? (media is plural)

• a parallel wave

• the material a wave travels through (solid, liquid or gas)

• the distance a wave travels through

• a perpendicular wave

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what is a transverse wave?

• a wave that requires a medium

• a wave that moves at right angles, or perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels in.

• energy transferred through space by electromagnetic wave

• a repeating disturbance that transfers energy

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