8 - Mechanical Waves Vocab 1

a disturbance that carries energy, but not matter, from one place to another

• mechanical wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave

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the matter that a mechanical wave travels through

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• medium

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a wave in which particles of matter move back and forth

• mechanical wave

• particles

• wave

• sound wave

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a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern parallel to the direction that the wave travels

• mechanical wave

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• surface wave

a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• mechanical wave

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• surface wave

a wave in which the matter moves in a circular pattern that is sometimes parallel and sometimes perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• mechanical wave

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• surface wave

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one complete motion of the repeating pattern of a wave

• wave speed

• wave cycle

• wavelength

• wave pulse

a wave made of a single disturbance that does not repeat

• wave cycle

• wavelength

• wave speed

• wave pulse

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