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The period of a 2 Hz wave.
What is 0.5 or one-half?
 The speed of a wave with
wavelength 20 m and period of 5
seconds.
What is 4 m/s?
The velocity of a wave with a
frequency of 6 Hz and a
wavelength of 3 m.
What is 18 m/s?
 The wavelength of a wave with
speed 200 m/s and a frequency of
25 m/s.
What is 8 m?
The time for an echo to reflect off
a wall, back to you if you’re 100
m away at 0 degrees C?
What is 0.61 s?
Waves bouncing off a barrier
What is reflection?
Waves passing through an object
with little change in energy.
What is transmission?
Phenomena that causes the
formation of nodes and
antinodes.
What is interference?
The phenomenon allowing one to
hear around corners.
What is diffraction?
 The direction (towards or away
from the normal, or not at all) a
wave refracts when passing into a
medium through which it moves
more quickly than the one it is
coming from.
What is away from the normal?
The vertical axis of a graph
The y-axis (or ordinate)
The horizontal axis on a graph
What is the x-axis (or abcissa)
The ratio of a change in a line’s
ordinate to the change in abcissa
What is the slope?
The variable form of the slope on
a position-time graph
What is ∆x/∆t ?
The value of the given slope at a
given point on a line on a
position/time graph
What is velocity?
An increase or decrease of
velocity
What is acceleration?
Change in velocity divided by
total time for change to take
place
What is average acceleration?
Acceleration at a given instant
What is instantaneous
acceleration?
The state in which a body is only
affected by gravity
What is free-fall?
9.81 m/s 2
What is acceleration due to
gravity on earth?
A measurement that has only
magnitude.
What is a scalar?
A measurement that has
magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
A vector that is the sum of two or
more vectors
What is a resultant vector?
The two parts a vector may be
broken into
What are components?
 The resultant of a 20 m/s north
vector, and a 20 m/s south vector
What is 0 m/s?