Across
- 1. a single disturbance that moves through a transmission medium.
- 4. one color light
- 8. range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
- 11. Scattered out reflection
- 15. a decrease in the density of something
- 16. a wave vibrating at right angles to the direction of its propagation
- 17. wave- a wave with a repeating continuous pattern which determines its wavelength and frequency
- 22. Increased amplitude as it approaches the thing that produces the waves
- 23. a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimum amplitude.
- 25. a substance or material that carries the wave.
- 26. specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations
- 27. interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies
- 29. indication of the light bending ability of that medium
- 31. wave that passes others
- 32. incident ray bouncing back in the same medium after striking the reflecting surface
- 33. the time for a particle on a medium to make one complete vibration cycle.
- 34. the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time
- 35. repetitive or periodic variation in time
- 39. When two waves of identical wavelength are in phase they form a new wave with an amplitude equal to the sum of their individual amplitudes
- 42. formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction
- 43. wave wave that transfers energy through a medium.
- 44. when a wave encounters an obstacle or opening
Down
- 2. of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence and that the incident ray,
- 3. the process by which a disturbance, such as the motion of electromagnetic or sound waves, is transmitted through a medium such as air or water
- 5. High or low amplitudes of waves
- 6. angle between the normal and the ray of light
- 7. normal way that waves reflect
- 9. change in direction of a wavefront at an interface that returns into the medium from which it originated
- 10. angle made by a reflected ray with a perpendicular to the reflecting surface.
- 12. a decrease in the density of something
- 13. the distance between successive crests of a wave especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave.
- 14. Effect/Doppler Shift:
- 18. the net response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually
- 19. a wave vibrating in the direction of propagation
- 20. type of interference that occurs at any location along the medium where the two interfering waves have a displacement in the opposite direction.
- 21. a region of maximum amplitude situated between adjacent nodes in a vibrating body
- 24. two waves combine by adding their displacement together at every single point in space and time, to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude
- 28. redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.
- 30. a process by which the wave signal is transmitted by modulating the amplitude of the signal
- 36. the point on the medium that exhibits the maximum amount of negative or downward displacement from the rest position.
- 37. ray of light which is approaching a mirror surface
- 38. the point on the medium that exhibits the maximum amount of positive or upward displacement from the rest position.
- 40. Wave that moves yet doesn't change max amplitude
- 41. an angle-like quantity representing the fraction of the cycle covered up to t.