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| When an object encounters a new medium, what combination does it perform? |
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| Absorption, transmission, reflection |
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| If an object is transmitted into a new medium what happens? |
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| Why do waves change direction (bend) when they enter a new medium? |
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| Because the change in density of the new medium changes the wave's speed |
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| How does a standing wave form? |
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| When two opposing waves combine |
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| What are the two types of waves? |
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| Electromagnetic and mechanical |
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| What are the two types of mechanical waves? |
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| Transverse and longitudinal |
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| What type of wave is a sound wave? |
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| Mechanical and longitudinal |
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| What type of wave is light? |
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| How is a sound wave made? |
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| When an object vibrates and causes the air particles around it to vibrate |
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| Does sound require a medium? |
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| Does sound travel faster through a solid or gas? |
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| How does thermal energy of a medium affect the speed of sound through it? |
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| The higher the thermal energy, the faster it travels |
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| Which wave feature represents the loudness of a sound wave? |
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| Which wave feature represents the pitch of a sound wave? |
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| What is the Doppler Effect? |
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| When wave energy travels from one object to another and the frequency can seem to be changed if one or both of them are moving |
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| When an object vibrates and causes another object to vibrate without touching it |
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| What is an electromagnetic wave? |
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| A transverse wave that has electric and magnetic fields at right angles to each other |
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| Does light travel faster through a vacuum or through a solid? |
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| Neither, they both travel at the speed of light |
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| List the categories of the electromagnetic spectrum from shortest to longest wavelength |
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| Gamma ray, x ray, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, micro wave, radio wave |
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| What is the difference between the various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum? |
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| What part of the EM spectrum does light fall under? |
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| When light passes through a prism and is separated into its different color components |
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