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Waves Vocab #1
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- 1Wavea disturbance that transfers energy from place to place
- 2Mechanical wavewaves that require or need to travel through a medium (ex. sound waves)
- 3Mediumthe material through which a mechanical wave travels (solid, liquid, gas)
- 4Electromagnetic wavewaves that do not need a medium to travel through (ex. visible light waves)
- 5Transverse wavewaves that move at right angles to the direction in which the waves travel
- 6Longitudinal wavewaves that move parallel to the direction in which the waves travel
- 7Troughlowest point of a transverse wave
- 8Cresthighest point of a transverse wave
- 9Amplitudetells the amount of energy carried by a wave
- 10Frequencythe number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
- 11Wavelengththe distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
- 12Compressionpart in a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together
- 13Rarefactionpart in a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart
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