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Features of Waves
Flashcards do conjunto (10)
- 1Which of these cannot travel through a vacuum?Sound
- 2What do we call the height of a wave?Amplitude
- 3What do we measure in Hz in sound waves?Frequency
- 4What describe the spreading out of a wave after it has passed through a gap?Diffraction
- 5What size gap causes significant diffraction?A gap that is sized similarly to the wavelength
- 6What are the units of frequency?Hertz
- 7How do we calculate the frequency of a wave?Frequency = 1 / the time period
- 8What is the period of a wave?The time it takes to complete one oscillation
- 9Which of these is not a type of electromagnetic radiation?Sound waves
- 10What is the wave speed equation?Wave speed = frequency x wave length
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- GCSE Physics FlashCards sobre Features of Waves, criado por lily bevan em 12-03-2017.
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