Mechanical Waves Vocabulary

a disturbance that transfers energy from place to place

• amplitude

• wave

• crest

• pitch

Tags

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mechanical waves that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person or animal's ear

• light

• amplitude

• sound

• frequency

Tags

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a wave that requires a medium through which to travel

• mechanical wave

• transverse wave

• wavelength

• wave

a wave that moves a medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels

• mechanical wave

• electromagnetic wave

• transverse wave

• longitudinal (compression) wave

the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave

• wavelength

• amplitude

• medium

• crest

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

• pitch

• crest

• frequency

• trough

the highest part of a transverse wave

• pitch

• crest

• trough

• frequency

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the lowest part of a transverse wave

• crest

• pitch

• frequency

• trough

the maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium

• wavelength

• crest

• amplitude

• wave

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the material through which a wave travels

• wavelength

• amplitude

• medium

• wave

Tags

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