- What is the source of all wave motion?
- What do waves transport?
- What does frequency mean?
- What is a time period of a pendulum? What is a time period of a wave?
- What is a wavelength?
- What are the units for wavelength, frequency, and period?
- What is a transverse wave? Name some examples.
- What is a longitudinal wave? Name some examples.
- What is wave interference?
- What is a medium?
- What effect does changing frequency have on wave speed?
- What effect does changing frequency have on wavelength?
- What is a standing wave?
- What is a node, and what is an antinode?
- When a wave has a lot of energy, how are its properties changed? Comment on how speed, amplitude, or wavelength is changed.
- What is amplitude? What would the amplitude be for a wave whose top-to-bottom distance is 30 m?
- 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.
- If you increase the frequency of ocean waves, what happens to the wavelength of each wave?
- What affect does each of the following have on a pendulum period: mass, amplitude, and length?
- How are length and period related?
- What is the time period of a second-hand clock?
- If a wave travels at 240 m/s and has a wavelength of 15 m, what would be the frequency?
- If a wave has a frequency of 30 Hz and a wavelength of 500 m, what would be the speed at which it travels?
- If ten waves pass by in 17 seconds, what would be the time period of each wave?
- 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?
- 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?
- A weight on the end of a string spins once every 8 seconds. What is the period of the weight?
- 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?
- 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?
- What are all of the mistakes that someone could make when constructing a graph?
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