Wave Concepts Quiz

____Mechanical Wave____-Must travel through a medium and cannot travel through empty space.

____Period_____________-The amount of time for one cycle to do a complete motion.

____Intensity___________ - the amount of energy in a light or sound wave, which we perceive as brightness or loudness, as determined by the wave's amplitude

______Crest____________-The highest point on the wave.

__Longitudinal Wave______-Make particles in the wave move parallel to the direction that the wave travels.

__Destructive Interference__-Reduces the energies of the two waves into a smaller amplitude.

__Wavelength____________-The length from one crest to the next crest.

__Electromagnetic Wave____-Does not require a medium and can travel through a vacuum.

___Compression___________-When the waves are pressed close together.

____Waves_______________-transfer energy but not matter as they travel.