Waves and Wave Behavior

What type of behavior is represented by the diagram?

• transmission

• scattering

• reflection

• refraction

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What behavior does this diagram represent?

• reflection

• scattering

• absorption

• transmission

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Light waves strike a surface. What happened to the energy from the light?

• It was released into the air.

• It was bent and changed direction.

• It was absorbed by the surface.

• It was scattered by the surface.

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Which tile is transmitting the light wave?

• The black tile

• The white tile

• The clear tile

• None of the tiles

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What is the definition reflection?

• The bending of waves as they enter a new medium

• Bouncing back of waves from a surface that it can’t pass through

• The bending of waves as they pass through openings or around corners

• When two interfering waves have a displacement in the same direction, two crests and two troughs overlap. Increased amplitude.

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What is the definition of Refraction?

• The bending of waves as they enter a new medium

• When two interfering waves have a displacement in the opposite direction, crest and trough overlap. Zero amplitude.

• When two interfering waves have a displacement in the same direction, two crests and two troughs overlap. Increased amplitude.

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All waves carry 

• water

• light

• energy

• sound

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Which wave is pictured?

• Transverse

• Longitudinal

• Both

• Neither

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What type of wave move a slinky back and forth?

• longitudinal

• transverse

Give an example of Diffraction.

• Water droplets act as prisms to separate white light into the ROYGBIV spectrum

• Decreased amplitude of the sound wave means softer sound

• the smaller the opening the more diffraction, light waves are so small you will have little diffraction.

• hearing the bass of the music through the openings in a car (longer wavelengths)

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