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Physics: Waves

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- 1What do waves transfer?

- 22. What do waves (such as waves in water and sound waves in air) not transfer?

- 3What is the definition of a transverse wave?

- 4List examples of transverse waves

- 5What is the definition of a longitudinal wave?

- 6Give an example of a longitudinal wave

- 7Sketch a diagram to show a transverse wave. Label the amplitude and wavelength

- 8Sketch a diagram to show a longitudinal wave. Label an area of compression and rarefaction.

- 9What is the formula to calculate wave speed?

- 10What is the definition of amplitude? What is it measured in?

- 11What is the definition of wavelength? What is it measured in?

- 12What is the definition of frequency? What is it measured in?

- 13What does a frequency of 3Hz mean?

- 14What is the formula that links the period of a wave to its frequency?

- 15What do all electromagnetic waves have in common?

- 16List the electromagnetic waves in order of increasing wavelength

- 17List the electromagnetic waves in order of increasing frequency

- 18List the electromagnetic waves in order of decreasing energy

- 19List the order of colours in the visible spectrum from longer wavelength to shorter wavelength

- 20Which is the only type of electromagnetic waves that can our eyes detect?

- 21What four different things could happen when electromagnetic waves hit a surface?

- 22What is refraction?

- 23What causes refraction?

- 24What happens when a wave, e.g. light meets a boundary between two materials along a normal line?

- 25Draw a diagram to show refraction of a ray of light hitting the surface at an angle between air and water

- 26Draw a diagram to show refraction of a ray of light hitting the surface at an angle between water and air

- 27Draw a diagram to show refraction of a ray of light travelling into and out of a glass block

- 28How does the density of a material affect the angle of refraction?

- 29How can you remember what happens when water waves are in deep or shallow water?

- 30Draw and annotate a wave front diagram to show what happens when water waves hit a deep area at a right angle (along a normal)

- 31Draw and annotate a wave front diagram to show what happens when water waves go from a shallow area to a deeper area at an angle

- 32How can radio waves be produced?

- 33What happens when radio waves are absorbed (e.g. by an aerial)?

- 34What are the harmful effects of ultraviolet waves?

- 35What are the harmful effects of X rays?

- 36What are the harmful effects of gamma waves?

- 37What are radio waves used for?

- 38What are microwaves used for?

- 39How do microwaves cook food?

- 40What is infrared used for?

- 41How is visible light used in communications?

- 42What is ultraviolet used for?

- 43What are X rays used for?

- 44What are gamma rays used for?

- 45Describe a method to measure the speed of sound in air using an oscilloscope

- 46Describe a method to measure the speed of ripples on a water tank using a ripple tank

- 47Describe a method to measure the speed of waves in a solid (e.g. a string)

- 48Describe an experiment to investigate how the amount of infrared radiation absorbed depends on the surface (corks on wax)

- 49Describe an experiment to investigate how the amount of infrared radiation emitted depends on the surface (Leslie’s cube)

- 50Symbols, names and units for equations

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