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Understanding Waves and Vibrations

Understanding Waves and Vibrations

Assessment

Interactive Video

Physics

9th - 10th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Jennifer Brown

FREE Resource

10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary difference between a pulse and a wave?

A pulse is a single disturbance, while a wave is ongoing.

A wave is a single disturbance, while a pulse is ongoing.

Both are single disturbances.

Both are ongoing disturbances.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes a sine wave?

A wave that only moves in one direction.

A wave with random high and low points.

A wave with consistent high and low points known as crests and troughs.

A wave with no pattern.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of a wave you might see in a stadium?

Microwave

Stadium wave

Sound wave

Water wave

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the role of the medium in wave motion?

The medium stops the wave.

The medium creates the wave.

The medium is the wave itself.

The medium carries the wave.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do mechanical waves propagate through a medium?

By moving the entire medium.

By particle to particle interaction.

By creating new particles.

By stopping particle movement.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What moves from one location to another in wave motion?

The particles themselves.

The medium.

Nothing moves.

The wave pattern and energy.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT an example of energy transport without material movement?

Light waves from the Sun

Ocean waves reaching the shore

A baseball flying through the air

Stadium waves

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