Properties of Waves - Vocab Words

A substance through which waves can travel. It can be solid, liquid, or gas.

• Frequency

• Medium

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

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A type of wave that requires a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to propagate.

• Transverse Wave

• Mechanical Wave

• Light Waves

• Electromagnetic Wave

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A wave that can travel through a vacuum (empty space) and does not require a medium. Examples include light and radio waves.

• Longitudinal Wave

• Electromagnetic Wave

• Sound Wave

• Mechanical Wave

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• A wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate parallel (side to side) to the direction of wave motion. Composed of compressions and rarefactions.

• Longitudinal Wave

• Transverse Wave

• Frequency

• Amplitude

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• A wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate perpendicular (up and down) to the direction of wave motion. Composed of crests and troughs.

• Transverse Wave

• Longitudinal Wave

• Mechanical Wave

• Amplitude

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• The maximum displacement of a point on a wave from its equilibrium (rest) position. Measured as distance from rest position to top of crest, or rest position to bottom of trough.

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

• Wave Speed

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

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Crests

• The distance between two consecutive crests or two consecutive trough in a transverse wave.

• The distance between two consecutive rarefactions or two consecutive compressions in a longitudinal wave.

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wavelength

• Wave Speed

• The speed at which a wave travels through a medium.

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Medium

• Wave Speed

A disturbance that travels through space or a medium and transfers of energy.

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Wave

• Matter

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