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60 Cards in this Set
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A BLANK is a disturbance that carries energy through matter or space
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Wave
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What is a wave?
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a disturbance that carries energy through matter or space
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What do most waves travel through?
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A medium
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What waves do not require a medium
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Electromagnetic
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Waves that travel through the earth
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Seismic waves
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A physical enviornment in which phenomena occurs
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Medium
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Medium
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That matter through which waves travel through
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That matter through which waves travel through
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Medium
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Waves that require a medium:
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Mechanical waves
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Most waves are :
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Mechanical waves
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The only waves that do not require a medium
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Electromagnetic waves
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these waves consist of changing electric and magnetic fields in space
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Electromegnetic waves
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A wave that consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields , which radiate outward at the speed of light.
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Electromegnetic waves
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Visible light waves , radio waves , :
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electromagnetic waves
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What do waves tranfer?
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Energy
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The bigger the wave the more BLANK it carries
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Energy
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Most waves are caused by BLANK
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Vibrating objects
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The Mechanical energy of a vibrating mass-spring system:
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Changes form.
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Simple harmonic motion
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Pg 508 btm
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Can a wave pass through a series of virbating objects
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True
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Damped harmonic motion
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pg 509 bttm
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a wave in which the particles of the medium move perpendiculary to the direction the wave is traveling
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Transverse
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The wave motion is parallel to particle motions
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Longitude wave
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Transverse waves have what motion
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Perpendicullar
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Electromagnetic waves are examples of what waves
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transverse
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Longitude waves have what motion
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parallel
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ex of longitude waves:
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Sound waves
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The highest point of the wave
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Crest
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THE lowest pt of the wave
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Trough
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Crowded areas:
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Compression
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Stretched out areas:
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rarefactions
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The particles in this type of wave move perpendiclly and paralled
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Surface waves
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These waves occuer at the boundary of two differnt mediums
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Surface waves
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Amplitude and wavelength are measurents of
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Distance
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Period and frequency are measures based on
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time
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What does amplitude measure
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The amt of particle vibration
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Greatest distance particles are displaced from their normal resting positions is called
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Amplitude
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Ampliude:
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REst to crest
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BLANK is the distance between two equivalnet parts of a wave
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Wavelenth
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Distance from one crest to the next crest
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Wavelneth
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Amplitude and Wavlength tell u about:
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Energy
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The time it takes to complete a cycle
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Period
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Blank is a measurement of the vibration rate
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Frequncy
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# of ccles per unit of time
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Frequency
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The speed of a wave depends on the
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Medium
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Ambulance/ care honking rush by:
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Doppler effect
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In the case of sound waves what creates a change in pitch
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Motion
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Pitch is determined by the BLANK of sound waves
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Frequncey
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Pich deteermined by
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frequnecy
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BLANK occurs when a wave meets a boundry
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Reflection
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Blank is the bending of waves around an edge
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Dissfracton
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REFRACTION
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the combination of 2 or more waves resulting in a single wave
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Intererence
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Which interferance increases amplituce
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COnstructive interfernce
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DIFFERCNE BETWEEN CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERANCE
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Interernce of light waves creates BLANK
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colorful displays
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interference of sound waves produces:
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Beats
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A pattern of vibration that stimulates a wave that is standing still
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Standing wave
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Results from interfernce between a wave and its refected wave.
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Stadning wave
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Points of complete destructve interfernce
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