Longitudinal Waves 🌊: Waves 🌊 travels the same (parallel) as the disturbance.

Transverse Waves 🌊: Waves that travels perpendicular to the direction of the vibrations and the (distance).

Water 💧

Wind 💨

Circulation Motion

Waves 🌊 are created by the energy passing through water 💧, causing it to move in a circulation motion… Wind 💨 are driven waves 🌊, or the surface waves, are created by the friction between the wind 💨 and the surface water 💧. As the wind 💨 blows across the surface of the ocean 🌊 or a lake, the continual disturbance creates a wave 🌊 crest.

Disturbance

Transfers/moves

ONLY Energy

NOT Matter

Material of a wave 🌊 can travel through

Not the same as the wave 🌊

Particles in return to the original position

Mechanical

Require Medium

Electromagnetic (EM)

NO Medium needed

Mechanical: OCEAN, SOUND, and SLINKIES

Seismic Waves: Longitudinal Primarily Waves 🌊 Fastest

Transverse: Secondary Waves arrives Second

EM: Light 💡, X Rays, Microwaves, and Radio 📻 Waves 🌊

Distance from any point on a wave 🌊 to the identical point on the next wave 🌊.

Units are the disturbance often M.

Maximum distance of the particles of a medium vibrate from the rest position.

Number of the wave 🌊 cycles produced in a given amount of time.

Measures of the rate of the vibration ( cycles per second).

Units = Hertz (HZ)

Velocity = Frequency X Wavelength or

Time for the identical points on the 2 Consecutive waves 🌊 to pass on a given point.

UNITS= SECONDS

IXL: K.1

Frequency

Power