Introduction to Waves

What do waves transfer?

• people

• my pencil

• energy

• only thermal energy

What is a wave?

• a repeating pulse

• a repeating motion of material energy

• a repeating disturbance that transfers energy

• a thing formed in the ocean

What type of energy created the splash when the person jumped in?

• kinetic

• thermal

• potential

• mechanical

• light

Which way does energy transfer when transferred by a wave?

• Sideways

• The direction the wave travels

• the direction of the media

• up

• down

The greater the disturbance...

• the further the wave travels

• the larger the wave is

• the smaller the amplitude is

• the more energy is transferred

If the left end of the rope is being shaken...

• the wave travels left

• the wave travels to the right

• the wave transfers back

• their is no wave produced

disturbance transfers energy in a repeating pattern

• transverse

• longitudinal

• pulse

• wave

particles of a wave move up and down

• longitudinal wave

• pulse

• transverse wave

• repeating pattern

particles move parallel (side to side) to the direction the wave travels

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• a wave drawn with my pencil

• a squigly line

the tallest part of a transverse wave

• crest

• compression

• trough

• rarefaction