Unit 8: Waves Practice

Longitudinal wave travels:

• only along Earth's longitudinal lines
• perpindicular to the direction of the oscillation
• in the same direction as the oscillation

The picture below shows what wave interaction?

• Diffraction
• Absorption
• Reflection

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Which of the following is NOT a property of waves?

• Amplitude
• Speed
• Weight

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Which of the following is an example of linear motion?

• Swing
• Running
• None

Which of the following is NOT an example of harmonic motion?

• A swing
• Car driving on a straight road
• None

Which of the following is the cause of damping?

• Velocity
• Friction
• Acceleration

what part of the wave is the amplitude?

• The start
• The top
• The bottom

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Which of these waves will have the shortest period? (Hint use formula)

• Top
• Middle
• Bottom

If the amplitude of the pendulum is doubled

• The pendulum will swing twice as far from the center
• The period will be twice as big
• The pendulum will have twice the mass

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What are the two wave types we talked about in class?

• ocean and sound
• transverse and linear
• transverse and longitudinal