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Physics: General Wave Properties

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is related to amplitude?

a)

height in wave

b)

frequency of wave

c)

energy of wave

d)

wavelength of wave

2.

A wave is a (a)   energy is transferred through vibrations.

3.

What do waves move?

a)

particles

b)

curves

c)

matter

d)

energy

4.

Choose the two laws of reflection.

a)

angle i = angle r

b)

sin i = sin r

c)

occurs on smooth surface

d)

normal, incident and reflected ray on same plane

5.

What kind of wave is represented by this equation? wave motion  direction of vibrationswave\ motion\ \perp\ direction\ of\ vibrations  

a)

sine waves

b)

transverse waves

c)

longitudinal waves

d)

cos waves

6.

Frequency is measured in Hz, and is found through Frequency = F =λvF\ =\lambda v  

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Which one of the following is not a feature of wavefronts?

a)

joins all identical points on a wave

b)

wavefronts can show wavelength, frequency and speed

c)

wave motion is perpendicular to the wavefront

d)

distance between succesive wavefronts is one wavelength

8.

What does not change during refraction?

a)

Frequency

b)

Speed

c)

Wavelength

9.

When light waves are refracted into deep to shallow water, what happens to the wave speed and the wavelength?

a)

wavelength increases

b)

wavelength decreases

c)

wave speed increases

d)

wave speed decreases

10.

What is not a source of waves?

a)

Vibrating motion

b)

Oscillating motion

c)

Ripple tank with no battery

d)

Ripple tank with battery