Intro To Waves Homework
10 Questions
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Complete the homework by answering each of the following questions. You may use your notes from class. Once the assignment is complete, print a report showing your completion record. This report will be submitted in class fpr a grade.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Waves are created by a vibration.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.As a wave moves through a medium, the individual particles of the medium move from the source of the wave to another location some distance away.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Waves are a means of transporting energy from one location to another without actually displacing matter from one location to another.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.An ocean wave will transport ocean water from near the middle of the ocean to a location near the shore.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.As mechanical waves move through a medium, particles of the medium undergo a periodic and repeated vibration about a fixed position.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.
- 7.
- A.
The particles of the medium are able to move along the curved wavelike pathway
- B.
One particle pushes or pulls on the adjacent particle which pushes or pulls on the next particle
- C.
The initial vibration of the medium causes the medium to assume the wavelike shape and this shape subsequently moves from one location to another.
- 8.Which of the following categories of waves require a medium in order to transport energy from one location to another?
- A.
Mechanical
- B.
Electromagnetic
- 9.
![The arrows on the diagrams below represent the direction of particle motion. Diagram A shows a ____ pulse and diagram B shows a ____ pulse.
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The arrows on the diagrams below represent the direction of particle motion. Diagram A shows a ____ pulse and diagram B shows a ____ pulse.- A.
Longitudinal, transverse
- B.
Transverse, longitudinal
- 10.Compare the direction in which particles of the medium vibrate for a longitudinal wave compared to a transverse wave. Reference the diagram in question #9 in your discussion.
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