VCE Physics - Revision

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Across
  1. 1. the rate of change of displacement with time
  2. 3. a point in a medium of a transverse wave where particles have maximum positive displacement
  3. 5. the splitting of white light into its constituent colours due to different refractive indices for different frequencies
  4. 9. the spread of a wave around an obstacle or through a gap
  5. 10. a point where constructive interference consistently occurs
  6. 11. the process by which the amplitude of an oscillation increases when forced oscillations match the natural frequency
  7. 14. a standing wave with a frequency equal to an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency
  8. 16. a type of collision where kinetic energy is conserved
  9. 17. the magnitude of the maximum variation of any quantity with a changing value
  10. 18. the addition of overlapping waves in the same medium
Down
  1. 2. a device that uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from one circuit to another
  2. 3. a component used to reverse the electrical connection between a stationary external circuit and a rotation coil every half rotation
  3. 4. the distance between identical points on a wave
  4. 6. a vector quantity equal to the change in momentum
  5. 7. the change in direction of a wave moving between two different media
  6. 8. any object that gravitationally orbits another body
  7. 12. a force that resists the relative motion of two surfaces that are in contact
  8. 13. a point where destructive interference consistently occurs
  9. 15. a region of space in which each point is subject to a non-contact force