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17 Cards in this Set
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Mechanical waves
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Waves that travel through a material medium
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ElectroMagnetic Waves
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Waves that do not require a material Medium.
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Transverse Waves
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Waves that Cause the particles of the medium to vibrate perpendicularly to the direction of the motion of the wave.
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Longitudinal waves
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Waves that cause the particles of a medium to move parallel to the direction of the wave.
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Surface Waves
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A mixture of transverse and longitudinal waves.
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Wave pulse
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A single disturbance that travels through a medium.
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Traveling Waves
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Continuous series of wave pulses
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Crest
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High point of a wave
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Trought
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Low Point of a wave
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Period
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Time needed for 1 complete cycle of a vave. (from crest to Crest).
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Frequency
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Number of cycles or crests that pass a point in 1 second.
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wavelength
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the shortest distance between two repeating points on a wave.
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Amplitude
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The maximum displacement from rest or equilibrium position of a wave
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Double Amplitude
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quadruple energy
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1/s
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1 hertz.
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m.(1/s)
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m/s
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frequency is reciprocal of
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Period
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