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when light bounces off an object
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| when light goes around a barrier |
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| when waves are travel through the same medium |
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| the material or substance which carries a wave |
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| a rhythmic disturbance that transfers energy without transfering matter |
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| the parts of the medium are farther apart than normal |
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| where the matter in the medium moves up and down or back and forth at right angles to the direction the wave travels |
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| waves that dont require matter to carry energy |
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| waves in which matter in the medium moves in the same direction as the wave |
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| the distance between two identical points on a wave |
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| the measurement of the number of waves that occurs per unit of time |
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| the height of a transverse wave |
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| highest point of a transverse wave |
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| the lowest point of a transverse wave |
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| when particles move from a warmer object to a cooler object |
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| anything that can transmit heat |
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