Properties of Waves Answers

Which game most represents a wave?

What is the motion of the particles in this kind of wave?

Natalia is studying a wave produced in her magnetics lab. This wave can move through the empty space in a vacuum and carries a lot of energy.What wave is Natalia most likely studying?

Brody and Ethel are arguing about waves. Brody says that waving his hand back and forth is a scientific wave. Ethel says that it is not. Which statement best describes who is correct?

2 circles with an overlap. The left circled is labeled Longitudinal Wave with further labels parallel motion, like moving a spring up and down. The right circle is labeled Transverse Wave with further labels perpendicular motion, like moving a spring back and forth. In the overlap are labels particles only move a small amount, particles do not move with the wave.

Jenny is trying to describe a wave. Which example would be the best description?

Which kind of wave would be observed in outer space between planets, where there is very little matter?

Augie created this chart about the two kinds of waves.Which best labels the chart?

Venn diagrams are used for comparing and contrasting topics. The overlapping sections show characteristics that the topics have in common, and the sections that are unique to each topic show the characteristics that apply to only that topic. This Venn diagram is comparing mechanical and electromagnetic waves.

What do sound waves and infrared waves have in common, and what makes them different?

Which refers to any disturbance that carries energy from one place to another through matter and space?

Which refers to the distance between two crests or two troughs on a transverse wave?

Which best describes the relationship between the terms “frequency,” “wavelength,” and “hertz”?

What is the speed of a wave with a frequency of 2 Hz and a wavelength of 87 m?

Which equation could be rearranged to calculate the frequency of a wave?

A wave of infrared light has a speed of 6 m/s and a wavelength of 12 m. What is the frequency of this wave?

This chart shows characteristics of three different waves, all with the same wavelength of 10 m but moving at different frequencies.

A beam of light is traveling through a medium at 200,000 km/s. It enters a different medium and speeds up to almost 250,000 km/s. Finally, it enters a third medium and halts.What were the media the light traveled through, in order?

Which are examples of a medium?

A sound wave traveling downward with a speed of about 4,000 m/s suddenly slows to 1,500 m/s not far below the Earth’s surface.What has the sound wave most likely encountered?