Vibrations and Waves Vocab

3. The distance from the top of one crest to the top of the next one.
4. The bending of a wave around an object
8. A pictorial representation of a wave.
9. The number of vibrations an object makes in a unit of time.
10. Low points on a wave.
12. is a regular arrangement of places where wave effects are increased, decreased, or neutralized.
14. When the particles oscillate parallel to or along the direction of the wave.
15. A repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space
16. the time of a back-and-forth swing of a pendulum.
17. Whenever the motion of the medium is at right angles to the direction in which a wave travels.
18. The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another

1. the crest of one wave overlaps the trough of another and their individual effects are reduced.
2. the crest of one wave overlaps the crest of another and their individual effects add together.
5. High points on a wave.
6. Matter through which a wave travels
7. Waves that can travel only through matter (sound waves)
11. this apparent change in frequency due to the motion of the source (or receiver)
13. The distance from the midpoint to the crest (or trough) of the wave.