Longitudinal Waves

A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave

• sound
• wavelength
• pitch
• frequency

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The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second

• frequency
• wavelength
• pitch
• amplitude

Material (matter) through which a wave travels

• medium
• Doppler Effect
• sound
• pitch

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When a sound is louder what measurement gets bigger?

• Frequency 
• Amplitude 
• Wavelength 
• Crest

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What does pitch depend on?

• amplitude 
• frequency
• intensity 
• volume of sound

Sound waves are ALWAYS what type of wave?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal 
• Depends 
• always different

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What is B?

• crest
• trough
• compression
• rarefaction

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True or False: Sound travels better through solids than through liquids

• True 
• False

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All waves carry

• energy
• light 
• matter
• particles

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What do we call the part of a compressional wave that is spread a part?

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough