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Wave
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A disturbance that moves through matter or space
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Medium
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The material throught which a wave travels. the includes all phases of matter (gas, liquid, solid)
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Mechanical wave
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Move through matter and space (solid, liquid, gas)
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Electromagnetic wave
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move through matter and space (a vacuum)
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Transverse wave
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A mechanical wave that causes particles in a mtter to move back and forth at right angles
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Longitudinal wave
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Cause mattter to move back adn forth along the same direction that the wave is traveling in.
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amplitude
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How far the particles move inside the medium from the rest position, measures the movement of the wave.
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Frequency
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Number of wave lengths that pass by each second
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Wave speed
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Different waves travel at different speeds
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compression
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In a longitudinal wave where the particles are close together
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Rarefraction
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In a longitudinal wave where the particles are farther apart
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Resonance
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In a longitudinal wave where the particles are farther apart.
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Doppler Effect
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Is an increase in amplitude that occurs when an object vibrating at its natural frequency absorbs energy from a nearby object vibrating at the same frequency.
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intensity
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loudness
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Pitch
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How low or high a sound is perceived.
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