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Vibration and Waves
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Physics
12th Grade
04/20/2009

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WhatW is a wiggle in time called? What is a wiggle in space and time called?
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Vibration, Wave
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What is the source of all waves?
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Something that is Vibrating
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Light and Sound are both virations that propgate thoughout space as ___, but?
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waves, but very differnt kinds of waves
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Sound vibrates though ____, AND
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material medium cannot travel in a vaccum
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Light is a vibratiion of ___ and ___, although it does not require___ is can
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electric and magnetic filds materical travel through it
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What is ment by the period of a pendulum
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The time of a to and fro swing
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Galileo discovered that the time a pendulum takes to swing to and fro through small distances depends only on
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the length of the pendelum
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What has a longer period, a short or long pendelum
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long pendelum
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A period does not depend on ___ or__
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MASS OR THE ANGLE
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2 BALLS WITH DIFFERENT MAS (3) AT THE SAME TIME
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DROP, SLIDE DOWN A FRITCTIONLESS SURFACES SWING ON A PENDULUM WITHTE SAME LENGH OF STRING
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hOW IS A SINE CURVE RELATED TO A WAVE
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A SINE GRAPH IS A PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF A WAVE
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FOR A WAVE OR BIRATION THE MAZIUL DISPLACE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE EQUILIBRIM POSITION.
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AMPLITUDE
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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCESSIVE CREST IOR TOUGHTS OR IDEINTCAL PARTS OF A WAVE
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WAVELENGTH
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FOR A BRIATIONG BOY OR MEDUM THE NUMBER OF VIBRATIONS PER UNIT OF TIME, FOR A WAVE, THE MUMBER OF CREST THAT PASS A PARTICULAR POINT PER UNIT ITME
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FREQUENCY
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HOW MANY VIBRATIONS PER SECOND ARE REPRESENTED IN A RADIO WATE OF 101.7 MHz
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1.017 x 10^8
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HOW DO FREQUENCY AND PERIOD RELATE TO EACH OTHER
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INVERSES OF ONE ANOTHER
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TO AND FRO VIBRATORY MOTION-OSCILATORY MOTION-OF A SWINGING PENDULUM IN A SMALL ARC
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SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION
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SINE CAN BE TRACED BY WHAT TWO MECHANISM
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OPEINHIMER MACHINE OR BOB ATTACHED TO A SPRINCE UNDERGOING VERTICAL SIMPLE HARMONIC MTION
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HIGH AND LOW POINTS OF SINE WAVE
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CREST TROUGHS
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RADIO WAVES ARE MEASURED IN
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KILOHERTZ
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FM RADIO WAVES ARE MEASURED IN
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MEGAHERTZ
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THE FREQUENCY OF RADIO STATIONS ARE THE FREQUENCYS AT WHICH ___ARE FORCED TO VBRATE THE ATENNA OF A RADIO SATION TRANSMITTING TOWER
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ELECTRON
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WHAT IS THE PERIOD OF A VIBRATION THAT HAS A FEQUENCY OF 2 HZ
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1/2 SECONDS
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iN ONE WORD, WHAT IS IT THAT MOVES FRO MSOURCE TO RECIEVER IN WAVE MOTION
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ENERGY
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DOES THE MEDIUM IN WHICH A WAVE TRAVELS MOVE WITH THE WAVE
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NO, THE LEAF, WATER FROM ROCK
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WHAT IS WAVE SPEED
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WAVELENGHT x FREQUECY
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THE MOTION OF THE ROPE UP AND DOWN IS AT RIGHT ANGLES OF THE DIRCTIONS OF WAVES SPEED. THE RIGHT ANGLED, OR SIDWARSY MOTION IS CALLED
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TRANSVERSE MOTION
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A WAVE IN WHICH THE MEDUMN VIATES IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECION IN WHICH THE WAVE TRAVELS LIGHT WAVE AND WATER WAVES ARE TRANSVCERSE.
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TRANSVERSE WAVES
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A WAVE IN WHICH THE MEDUM BIBRATES IN A DIRCTION PARALLEL TO THE DIRCTION IN WHICH THE WAVE TRAVES. SUOND WAVE ARE LONGITUDINAL
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LONGITUDINAL
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IN AN EARTHQUAKE, [ WAVES ARE AND SWAVE ARE
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P-LONGITUDINAL S-TRAVSCERSE
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THE WAVELING OF A LONGITUDINAL WAVE LENGHT IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
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SUCESSIVE RAREFACTIONS
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THE PATTERN FORNED BY SUPERPOSITION OF DIFFERENT SETS OF WAVES THAT PRODUCES REINFORCMENT IN SOME PLACES AND ACELLATION IN OTHER
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INTERFERENCE PATTERN
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WHEN MORE THAN ONE WAVE OCCUPIES THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME
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SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE
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WHEN THE CREST OF ONE WAVE OVERLAPS THE CREST OF ANOTHER
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CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCES
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WHEN THE CREST OF ONE WAVE OVERLAPS THE TROUGH OF ANOTHER
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DESTRUCITVE INTERFERENCE
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WHAT KINDS OF WAVES CAN SHOW INTERFERENCE
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ALL WAVES
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STATIONALR PARTS OF A ROPE AND CONDITION
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NODES STANDING WAVE
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REGIONS OF MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT AND MAXIMUM ENERGY
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ANTINODES
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ARE STANDING WAVES A PRPERTY OF TRANSVER OR LONGITUDINAL WAVES, OR OF BOTH
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THEY ARE OF BOTH BUT SEPERATELY OF BOTH
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THE SHIFT IN RECEIVED FREQUENCY DUE TO MOTION OF A BVIBRATING SOURCE TOWARD OR AWAY FROM A RECIVER
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DOPLER EFFECT
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IN DOPPLER EFFECT, DOES FREQUENCY CHANGE,DOES WAVELENGTH CHANGE,DOES WAVE SPEED CHANGE
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YES,YES, NO
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AN INCRESE IN LIGHT FREQUENCY
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BLUE SHIFT
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DECREASE IN LIGHT FREWQUENCY
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RED SHIFT
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CAN THE DOPPLE EFFECT BE OBSERVED WITH LONGITUDINAL WAVES, WITH TRANSVERSE WAVES OR WITH BOTH
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BOTH
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HOW FAST MUST A BUG SWIN TO KEEP UP WITH THE WAVES IT PRODUCES WHO FAST MUST IT MOVE TO PRODUCE A BOW WAVE
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AS FAST AS THE WAVES, FASTER THAN THE WAVES
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HOW FAST DOES A SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT FLY IN COMPRED TO THE SPEED OF SOUND
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FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND
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HOW DOES THE V SHAPE OF THE BOW WAVE DEPEND ON THE SPEED OF THE SOURCE
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IT IS THE POINT WHERE ADJACENT WAVES OVERLAP PRODUCING THE V SHAPE
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A BOW WAVE ON THE SURFACE OF WATER IS TWO D. WHAT ABOUT A SHOKE WAVE IN AIR
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3D
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T OR F. A SONIC BOO OCCURS ONL WHEN AN AIRFCAFT IS BREAKING THOUGH THE SOUND BARRIER
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F. IT IS A CONTINOUS THINKG AFTER IT BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER
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T OR F. IN OURDER FOR AN OBJET TO PRODUCE A SONIC BOOM, IT MUST BE NOISY. 2 EX
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F. CRCS A WHIP SUPERSONIC BULLET
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