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What is a wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels?
Transverse wave
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What is how many wave peaks pass a certain point per given time?
Frequency
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What is the movement of a pendulum?
Simple Harmonic
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What is a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency?
pitch
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What is frequency times wavelength?
Wavespeed
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What is a wave that requires a medium through which to travel?
Mechanical Wave
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What is the time that it takes a complete cycle or wave oscillation to occur?
Period
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What occurs when an object causes a wave to change direction and bend around it?
Diffraction
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What is the lowest frequency of vibration of a standing wave?
Fundamental Frequency
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What is a transformation that flips a figure over a mirror or reflection line?
Reflection
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What is a wave in which matter moves back and forth in the direction the wave is moving?
compressional wave
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What is the height of a wave?
Amplitude
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What is the periodic and repeating fluctuations heard in the intensity of a sound when two sound waves of very similar frequencies interfere with one another?
Beats
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What is a phenomenon that occurs when two objects naturally vibrate at the same frequency?
Resonance
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What is in the center/middle?
Media
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What is a form of energy that can move through the vacuum of space?
Electromagnetic waves
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What is the interference that occurs when two waves combine to make a wave with a smaller amplitude
Destructive Interference
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What is a disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave?
sound
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What is a electromagnetic radiation that lies within the visible range?
Light
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What is the division into two opposite position?
Polarization
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What is the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave?
Wavelength
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What is the interference that occurs when two waves combine to make a wave with a larger amplitude?
Constructive interference
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What is an observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or observer is moving?
Doppler Effect
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What is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light?
Color
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What is the bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another?
Refraction
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