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| anything that has mass and takes up space |
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| repeated wave motions that disturb their surroundings |
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| a disturbance created by vibrations |
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| travel though matter (solid, liquid, gas) |
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| the distance measured from trough to crest |
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| how many waves pass a certain point in one second. measured in hertz |
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| occurs when a wave bounces off a surface |
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| occurs when waves bend as they change speeds when they change media. Light travels faster than air in water. |
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| specific type of wave that moves the particles of the medium at right angles to the direction the wave's energy is traveling |
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| move energy in the same direction that it is moving the particles in the medium it is touching |
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| longitudinal (compression) wave |
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| the highness or lowness of a sound |
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| sounds below the 20 Hz level |
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| Infrasonic (subsonic) sounds |
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| the human perception of sound intensity |
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| the change in wave frequency due to a moving sound or source |
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| sounds that are loud, annoying, or harmful to the ear |
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| tiny massless bundles of radiation |
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| absorb or reflect all light ..... you cannot see through them |
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| allow all light through them... you can clearly see an object through them |
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| allows some light through them ... not enough to clearly see an object through them |
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| system that consists of 2 or more plane surfaces of a transparent solid at an angle |
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| crest of one wave.... overlaps crest of other wave |
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| constructive interference |
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| crest of one wave....overlaping the trough of another wave |
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| a pattern of vibration that stimulates a still wave |
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| bending of a wavefront as it passes through 2 substances |
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| a change in direction of a wave when the wave finds and osticle. for example an angle. |
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| phenomenon 2 waves vibrate at the same frequency |
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| a combination of two or more waves that result in a single wave |
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| a substance a wave can travel through |
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| when a longitudinal wave and a transverse wave combine |
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| the distance at any point on a wave to an identicle point on the next wave. |
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| number of waves produced in a given volume |
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| what happens when a wavelength is halved |
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| radio waves do or do not require a medium |
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| is a refraction a property of a wave |
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| what happens when resonant occurs |
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| two objects simoltaniously vibrate at the same time. |
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| what happens when a wave length is doubled |
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| a part of a longitudinal waves where the particles are crowded together |
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| what's the result of a reflected sound wave |
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| height in a wave is related to |
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| unit that measures frequency |
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| why would a large amplitude sound wave be louder |
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| more energy is put into it |
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