WAVES & INFO. TECHNOLOGIES

A complete, unbroken path through which electric charges can flow.

• electric circuit

• voltages

• resistance

• Ohm's law

The difference in electrical potential energy per charge between two places in a circuit.

• voltage

• resistance

• wave pulse

• series circuit

The measurement of how difficult it is for charges to flow through an object.

• resistance

• longitudinal wave

• voltage

• parallel circuit

The law that states the resistance in a circuit is equal to voltage divided by current.

• Ohm's law

• wave pulse

• software

• electrical circuit

An electric circuit in which all parts are connected one after another along one path.

• series circuit

• parallel circuit

• longitudinal wave

• Ohm's law

An electric circuit in which different parts of the circuit are on separate branches.

• parallel circuit

• series circuit

• transverse wave

• analog signal

A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.

• wave

• analog signal

• digital signal

• electrical circuit

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A wave that requires a medium through which to travel.

• mechanical wave

• electromagnetic wave

• digital signal

• analog signal

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A wave that moves the medium at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• series circuit

• parallel circuit

A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.

• longitudinal wave

• electromagnetic wave

• amplitude

• transverse wave