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Unit 11 Exam Review - Waves
What is energy?
How does energy travel through a vacuum?
What is a wave? Give an example of a wave.
What are the two types of mechanical waves?
5. A ____________________wave is a wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction
perpendicular to the direction that the wave moves. Give an example.
6. A ____________________ wave is a wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to
the direction that the wave moves. Give an example.
7. A ____________________wave is a wave in which particles of the medium undergo a circular motion
during oscillations. Give an example.
8. What is the Richter scale used for?
9. What is oscillating in a light wave?
10. What is a pulse?
11. What is a medium? Give examples.
12. What part of a slinky wave represents interacting particles?
13. What do waves transport?
14. What type of wave does not require a medium to travel through?
15. What is an electromagnetic wave? Give examples.
16. What is a vacuum?
17. How do mechanical and electromagnetic waves differ?
18. Examples of electromagnetic waves are _________________________________________________.
19. Use the picture of a wave below to label the following: wavelength, amplitude, crest, trough, and one
complete cycle.
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What is a wavelength?
What is amplitude?
What is frequency? What is the formula? What are its units?
High frequency = _________________ Pitch and Low frequency = __________________Pitch.
What is a period? What is the formula?
What is the speed of light?
What is faster, light or sound? How can you prove it?
What is the formula to calculate the speed of a wave?
28. What is resonance?
29. What is an acoustic wave?
30. What interactions are possible when a wave encounter boundaries – object or surface (how do waves
move)?
31. What is diffraction?
32. Why can we hear sounds around a corner but not see someone around a corner?
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What wave interference causes the sound wave to spread out from any small opening?
What is a wave front?
What is absorption?
What is wave interference? What are the two types of wave interference? Give examples of each.
37. What is the Doppler effect?
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What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum? Give examples of waves represented on the spectrum.
What type of electromagnetic waves do cell phones use?
How does light travel?
What waves are detected by the human eye? How do we see color?
What is white light? What does the color black mean?
How do ROY G BIV colors differ?
What color of visible light is the hottest? Why? What color of visible light is the coolest? Why?
45. What are the primary and secondary colors?
46. How do frequency, wavelengths, and energy change on the EMS spectrum?
47. What is chlorophyll and why is it green?
48. What is chromatography used for?
49. How do you know if light is being reflected or absorbed?
50. What are the reactants and products of photosynthesis?
51. What is radiation?
52. What is reflection? Give an example.
53. What is refraction? Give an example.
54. What is polarization? Name one type of wave that exhibit polarization.