physics crossword #2
Across
- 5. a wave's peak to peak or trough to trough
- 6. another way of saying wave cycle
- 8. a single quantum of electromagnetic energy
- 9. Waves that need a medium in which to propagate.
- 12. Waves that can propagate in a vacuum, how energy gets here from the sun, can also propagate in a medium
- 13. when photons of light are all aligned in the same direction
Down
- 1. light spectrum that can be seen by human eyes from red to violet
- 2. reciprocal of time period
- 3. measurements sound dB
- 4. electromagnetic radiation with frequency too low to be seen by human eyes
- 7. Unit used to measure the period of a wave.
- 8. Amount of time required for a wave to complete one cycle.
- 10. A disturbance in space and time that carries energy from one place to another.
- 11. the light which has the lowest frequency in the visible spectrum