Physics: Wave Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. type of harmonic motion
  2. 5. wave that interferes with itself constructively
  3. 8. waves per second
  4. 9. oscillating motion
  5. 13. wave motion perpendicular to travel
  6. 14. most nonstationary part of wave
  7. 16. wave enters and bends
  8. 18. Robert _______, studied harmonic motion
  9. 20. constructive or destructive
  10. 21. wave height
  11. 22. stationary part of wave
  12. 23. type of motion that goes back and forth
  13. 24. wave motion same direction as travel
  14. 25. swings back and forth
  15. 26. not a body wave
  16. 27. type of motion that goes back and forth
Down
  1. 1. lowest part of wave
  2. 2. a wave that bounces back
  3. 3. first among a series of waves
  4. 4. wave – not traveling
  5. 6. one short wave
  6. 7. highest top part of wave
  7. 10. amount of time to complete a wave
  8. 11. wave enters and bounces
  9. 12. distance from one pulse to the next
  10. 15. principle - two waves occupying same space
  11. 17. counterpart of reflected wave
  12. 19. math term - perpendicular
  13. 25. type of motion that waves
  14. 28. geometric straight line