Mechanical Waves Vocabulary

a disturbance that carries energy from place to place

• mechanical wave

• wave cycle

• model

• wave

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the matter that a mechanical wave travels through

• model

• medium

• wave

• wave pulse

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a wave in which particles of matter move back and forth

• mechanical wave

• wave

• wave cycle

• surface wave

a representation of a situation which makes important aspects easy to see

• wave

• model

• medium

• wave cycle

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a wave made of a single disturbance that does not repeat

• wave pulse

• wave

• wave cycle

• transverse wave

one complete motion of the repeating pattern of a wave

• surface wave

• wave

• wave cycle

• longitudinal wave

a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• wave cycle

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern parallel to the direction that the wave travels

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave

a wave in which the matter moves in a circular pattern that is sometimes parallel and sometimes perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave cycle

the ability to cause motion or change

• force

• energy

• matter

• gravity

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