Standard+7+Part+1+Waves

1. What is a wave? 2. What do waves transfer? 3. What is a longitudinal wave? 4. What is a transverse wave? 5. What types of energy are transferred by waves and what type of wave transfers each? 6. What is a medium? 7. What types of waves require a medium? 8. What types of waves do not require a medium? 9. What is a sound wave and what are its characteristics? 10. What is a light wave and what are its characteristics? (7-1) 11. What are the two main types of waves? 12. What is an electromagnetic wave and what are its characteristics? 13. What is a mechanical wave and what are its characteristics? 14. What are the two primary types of mechanical waves? 15. What are the properties of transverse waves? 16. What is a crest? 17. What is a trough? 18. What is the equilibrium (or rest) position of a wave? 19. What are the properties of a longitudinal (or compressional) wave? 20. What is a compression? 21. What is a rarefaction? 22. What types of mechanical waves cannot be classified as transverse or longitudinal waves and why? (7-2) 23. What is amplitude? 24. What is displacement? 25. What is frequency? 26. What is the unit of measure for frequency? 27. What is wavelength? 28. What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength? 29. What is the period of a wave? 30. What is the relationship between period and frequency? 31. What is wavelength? 32. How is wavelength measured in a transverse wave? 33. How is wavelength measured in a longitudinal wave? 34. What is wave velocity? 35. What controls the velocity of a wave? (7-3) 36. What is the wave equation? 37. How do you solve wave equation problems? 38. How is the speed equation applied to wave motion? (7-4)
 * Standard 7, Part 1: Essential Questions **