1. What is the source of all wave motion?
  2. What do waves transport?
  3. What does frequency mean?
  4. What is a time period of a pendulum? What is a time period of a wave?
  5. What is a wavelength?
  6. What are the units for wavelength, frequency, and period?
  7. What is a transverse wave? Name some examples.
  8. What is a longitudinal wave? Name some examples.
  9. What is wave interference?
  10. What is a medium?
  11. What effect does changing frequency have on wave speed?
  12. What effect does changing frequency have on wavelength?
  13. What is a standing wave?
  14. What is a node, and what is an antinode?
  15. When a wave has a lot of energy, how are its properties changed? Comment on how speed, amplitude, or wavelength is changed.
  16. What is amplitude? What would the amplitude be for a wave whose top-to-bottom distance is 30 m?
  17. If you double the frequency of a vibrating object, what happens to its period? What if you triple the frequency?  Try it.  Start with a frequency of 6 Hz and comment on the effects.
  18. If you increase the frequency of ocean waves, what happens to the wavelength of each wave?
  19. What affect does each of the following have on a pendulum period: mass, amplitude, and length?
  20. How are length and period related?
  21. What is the time period of a second-hand clock?
  22. If a wave travels at 240 m/s and has a wavelength of 15 m, what would be the frequency?
  23. If a wave has a frequency of 30 Hz and a wavelength of 500 m, what would be the speed at which it travels?
  24. If ten waves pass by in 17 seconds, what would be the time period of each wave?
  25. If ten waves cover a distance of 45 m in 17 seconds, what would be the time period of each wave? What would be the frequency of the wave?  What would be the speed of each wave?
  26. A pendulum “A” pulled back 10 degrees and released. An identical pendulum “B” is pulled back 30 degrees and released.  Which pendulum will take longer to make a complete cycle?
  27. A weight on the end of a string spins once every 8 seconds. What is the period of the weight?
  28. Two waves arrive out-of-phase with each other, one wave with an amplitude of 8m and the other with an amplitude of 6.8 m.What would be the amplitude of the resulting wave?
  29. A wave has four crests and four troughs pass by a boat each second. If the wave travels a distance of 30 meters in 2 seconds, how large is the wavelength?
  30. What are all of the mistakes that someone could make when constructing a graph?