Waves

Question 1

What do waves transfer?

Answer 1

• Energy.

Question 2

What is a Transverse Wave?

Answer 2

• a wave where particles move perpendicular to the direction of wave energy.
• water waves.

Question 3

What is a Longitudinal Wave?

Answer 3

• a wave where particles move in the same direction as wave energy.
• sound waves.

Question 4

What is wave frequency?

Answer 4

• the number of waves produced per second.

Question 5

What is wavelength?

Answer 5

• the distance from one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave.

Question 6

What is the period?

Answer 6

• the time taken for one complete wave to pass a point.

Question 7

What is diffraction?

Answer 7

• the bending of waves around an obstacle.

Question 8

What is Refraction?

Answer 8

• the change in speed of light, as it passes from one medium to another.

Question 9

What happens to the wavelength from air to glass?

Answer 9

• it decreases.