WAVES INTRODUCTION PRACTICE

What is a transverse wave?

• A wave that travels at a right angle (perpendicular) to the medium and has crests and troughs

• A wave that carries the medium along with it as it moves

• A wave that travels parallel to the medium and has compressions and rarefactions

• A wave that travels along a surface that separates two mediums

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A _________ wave is one that travels without a medium (it can travel through a vacuum like empty space in outer space).

• Electromagnetic Wave

• Transverse

• Mechanical

• Surface

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A __________________ wave is one that needs to travel through a medium like a solid, liquid, or gas.

• Neither

• Mechanical

• Electromagnetic

• Both

What is a longitudinal wave?

• A wave that carries the medium along with it as it moves.

• A wave that travels at a right angle to the medium and has crests and troughs

• A wave that travels along a surface that separates two mediums

• A wave that travels parallel to the medium and has compressions and rarefactions

What does the letter (b) show (lowest point of this type of wave)?

• Wave Height

• Resting Position

• Trough

• Crest

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The Capital Letter A measures from the rest position to the top of the wave. What is this measurement called?

• rarefaction

• compression

• wave height

• amplitude

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What does the lowercase letter (a) represent (highest point of this type of wave?)?

• rarefaction

• crest

• trough

• amplitude

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What is the measurement from crest to crest on a transverse wave called?

• all of these

• amplitude

• wave height

• wavelength

What is the measurement from compression to compression (or rarefaction to rarefaction) on a longitudinal wave called?

• amplitude

• wavelength

• wave height

• rarefaction

The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time is called ___________________________?

• all of these

• rarefaction

• frequency

• wave length