The diagram shown represents four waves traveling to the right in the same transmitting medium. Which type of wave is represented?

Which wave has the greatest frequency?

Which wave has the greatest amplitude?

Which type of wave is classified as longitudinal?

As a longitudinal wave travels horizontally, the particles of the medium vibrate _______.

If the displacement of particles in a medium is parallel to the direction of travel of the wave, the wave is classified as

If a disturbance is parallel to the direction of travel of a wave, the wave is classified as

Two waves have the same frequency in a medium. The wave with the greater energy has the greater

The diagram here represents four waves traveling to the right in the same transmitting medium. Which wave has the greatest frequency?

If 12 waves pass a point in 4 seconds, the frequency of vibration is

The number of waves passing a point in a unit of time is called

The number of water waves passing a given point each second is the wave's

The speed of a transverse wave in a string is 12 meters per second. If the frequency of the source producing this wave is 3.0 hertz, what is its wavelength?

What is the period of a wave with a frequency of 2.0 x 10^2 hertz?

A periodic wave with a frequency of 10 hertz would have a period of

What is the frequency of a wave if its period is 0.25 seconds?

Which graph best represents the relationship between the frequency and period of a wave?

The accompanying graph shows displacement versus time for a particle of a uniform medium as a wave passes through the medium. What is the frequency of the wave?

The diagram below represents the wave fronts produced by a point source moving to the right in a uniform medium. Observers are located at points A and B. Compared to the wave frequency and wavelength observed at point A, the wave observed at point B has a:

Which waves require a medium for transmission?

The loudness of a sound is dependent upon which wave property?

A term often used to describe the frequency of a sound is

The reflection of a sound wave from a wall is called

Increasing the amplitude of a sound wave will make it

Sound is a form of

Sound can not be transmitted through a

An echo is strong evidence that sound can be

Sound travels as

As the frequency of a sound wave decreases, its pitch

As the temperature of air increases, the speed of sound in air

Light is to brightness as sound is to

The amplitude of a sound wave is to its loudness as the amplitude of a light wave is to its

As a sound wave travels through air, there is a net transfer of

What type of wave is sound traveling in water?

A tuning fork oscillates with a frequency of 256 hertz after being struck by a rubber hammer. Which phrase best describes the sound waves produced by this oscillating tuning fork?

Compared to the speed of a sound wave in air, the speed of a radio wave in air is

Which type of wave requires a material medium through which to travel?

The energy of a sound wave is most closely related to the wave's

A sound wave traveling eastward through air causes the air molecules to

Which of the following electromagnetic radiations has the shortest wavelength?

Which of the following electromagnetic waves has the lowest frequency?

As the color of light changes from red to yellow, the frequency of the light

Compared to wavelengths of visible light, the wavelengths of ultraviolet light are

In a vacuum, light with a frequency of 5.0 x 10^14 hertz has a wavelength of

A photon of which electromagnetic radiation has the most energy?

Radio waves and gamma rays traveling in space have the same

Which wave characteristic is the same for all types of electromagnetic radiation traveling in a vacuum?

What is the speed of a radio wave in a vacuum?

Which list identifies portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in order of increasing frequency?

The rate at which a wave travels from one point to another determines the wave's

If the velocity of a constant-frequency wave increases, the wavelength

A sound wave has a wavelength of 2 meters and a frequency of 100 cycles per second. The speed of the wave is

A wave has a frequency of 200 vibrations per second and a speed of 100 meters per second. The wavelength is

The diagram here represents a light ray being reflected from a plane mirror. From the data given in the diagram, what is the angle of reflection?

In the diagram here a light ray passes obliquely from air into a glass block. Which path represents the refracted ray of light?

If a light ray has an angle of reflection of 10°, the angle of incidence is

The diagram shows a ray of light being refracted as it passes from air into glass. Which letter represents the angle of refraction for the light ray?

The tendency of sound waves to bend when they pass from one medium to a different medium is known as

If the angle of incidence of a light ray is 30°, the angle of reflection is

When a light ray is reflected from a surface, compared to the angle of incidence, the angle of reflection is

Refraction of a wave is caused by a change in the wave's

Which wave phenomenon is represented in the diagram here?

When a ray of light strikes a mirror perpendicular to its surface, the angle of reflection is

The diagram shown represents straight wave fronts approaching an opening in a barrier. Which diagram best represents the shape of the waves after passing through the opening?

The diagram shows two rays of light striking a plane mirror. Which diagram best represents the reflected rays?

The spreading of a wave into the region behind an obstacle is known as

In the diagram, two speakers are connected to a sound generator. The speakers produce a sound pattern of constant frequency such that a listener will hear the sound very well at A and C, but not as well at point B. Which wave phenomenon is illustrated by this experiment?

A car radio is tuned to the frequency being emitted from two transmitting towers. As the car moves at constant speed past the towers, as shown in the diagram, the sound from the radio repeatedly fades in and out. This phenomenon can best be explained by

When light rays from an object are incident upon an opaque, rough-textured surface, no reflected image of the object can be seen. This phenomenon occurs because of

Parallel light rays are incident on the surface of a plane mirror. Upon reflection from the mirror, the light rays will

Which diagram best represents the reflection of light from an irregular surface?

Which diagram best represents the path of light rays passing through a glass prism?

The accompanying diagram shows parallel rays of light incident on an irregular surface. Which phenomenon of light is illustrated by the diagram?

The accompanying diagram shows a ray of light passing through two media. When the wave travels from medium A into medium B, its speed

The accompanying diagram shows light rays in air about to strike a glass window. When the rays reach the boundary between the air and the glass, the light is

A change in the speed of a wave as it enters a new medium produces a change in

What happens to the frequency and the speed of an electromagnetic wave as it passes from air into glass?

As a sound wave passes from water, where the speed is 1.49 x 10^3 meters per second, into air, the wave's speed

A laser beam is directed at the surface of a smooth, calm pond as represented in the diagram below. Which organisms could be illuminated by the laser light?

A sonar wave is reflected from the ocean floor. For which angles of incidence do the wave's angle of reflection equal its angle of incidence?

When the vibration of one object causes a nearby object to vibrate, the phenomenon is called

Two tuning forks are struck at the same time. Their sound is observed to become louder and softer at regular intervals. This is caused by wave

Beats are produced by two sound waves having different

Which of the following is caused by the interference of sound waves?

Two pulses are travelling along a string toward each other as represented in the diagram below. Which phenomenon will occur as the pulses meet?

If two identical sound waves arriving at the same point are in phase, compared to the original waves, the resulting wave will have

When the beams from two coherent light sources are projected on a screen, alternating bright and dark areas are produced. This phenomenon illustrates light

Which term describes two points on a periodic wave that are moving in the same direction and have the same displacement from their equilibrium positions?

An opera singer's voice is able to break a thin crystal glass if the singer's voice and the glass have the same natural ___.

The diagram represents wave movement. Which two points are in phase?

The diagram shown represents a rope along which two pulses of equal amplitude, A, approach point P. When the two pulses meet at P, the vertical displacement of the rope at point P will be ___.

The accompanying diagram shows a periodic wave. Which two points on the wave are in phase?

The accompanying diagram represents a rope along which two pulses of equal amplitude, A, approach point P. As the two pulses pass through point P, the maximum vertical displacement of the rope at point P will be ___.

The diagram below shows two pulses of equal amplitude, A, approaching point P along a uniform string. When the two pulses meet at P, the vertical displacement of the string at P will be

As two trucks approach each other, the driver of one truck sounds his horn. Compared to the true frequency of the horn when the trucks are stationary, the frequency heard by the other driver will be