Physics: Wave Vocabulary

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