Wave Properties

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What is a wave?

Back

A disturbance that transfers energy.

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What type of wave travels in the same direction as the disturbance?

Back

Longitudinal wave.

Front

Is a sound wave a mechanical wave?

Back

True.

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Can electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum?

Back

True.

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What type of wave does not require a medium to travel?

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Electromagnetic radiation.

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What is a transverse wave?

Back

A wave where the disturbance moves perpendicular to the direction of the wave.

Front

What is a mechanical wave?

Back

A wave that requires a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel.

Front

What is the medium in a wave?

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The substance through which the wave travels.

Front

What is wavelength?

Back

The distance between two consecutive crests or troughs in a wave.

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What is frequency?

Back

The number of waves that pass a point in one second.