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WorksheetsPhysics: General Wave Properties
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
What is related to amplitude?
height in wave
frequency of wave
energy of wave
wavelength of wave
A wave is a (a) energy is transferred through vibrations.
What do waves move?
particles
curves
matter
energy
Choose the two laws of reflection.
angle i = angle r
sin i = sin r
occurs on smooth surface
normal, incident and reflected ray on same plane
What kind of wave is represented by this equation? wave motion ⊥ direction of vibrations
sine waves
transverse waves
longitudinal waves
cos waves
Frequency is measured in Hz, and is found through Frequency = F =λv
True
False
Which one of the following is not a feature of wavefronts?
joins all identical points on a wave
wavefronts can show wavelength, frequency and speed
wave motion is perpendicular to the wavefront
distance between succesive wavefronts is one wavelength
What does not change during refraction?
Frequency
Speed
Wavelength
When light waves are refracted into deep to shallow water, what happens to the wave speed and the wavelength?
wavelength increases
wavelength decreases
wave speed increases
wave speed decreases
What is not a source of waves?
Vibrating motion
Oscillating motion
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