wave vocab

3. Curve: A pictorial representation of a wave.
7. Low points on a wave.
8. Wave: When the particles oscillate parallel to or along the direction of the wave.
9. The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it travels from one medium to another
12. Wave: Whenever the motion of the medium is at right angles to the direction in which a wave travels.
15. The bending of a wave around an object
17. The number of vibrations an object makes in a unit of time.
18. High points on a wave.

1. interference: the crest of one wave overlaps the trough of another and their individual effects are reduced.
2. Waves: Waves that can travel only through matter (sound waves)
4. Pattern is a regular arrangement of places where wave effects are increased, decreased, or neutralized.
5. The distance from the top of one crest to the top of the next one.
6. The distance from the midpoint to the crest (or trough) of the wave.
10. interference: the crest of one wave overlaps the crest of another and their individual effects add together.
11. Matter through which a wave travels
13. A repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space
14. Effect: this apparent change in frequency due to the motion of the source (or receiver)
16. the time of a back-and-forth swing of a pendulum.