Waves and Sound Vocabulary Page

By the end of these unit you should know the definition and menaing of the following terms; (copy into your notes and begin to add definitions)

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Term

Lesson

Text Page Reference

1

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Absorption
2
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Amplitude
3
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Amplitude (peak-default, peak to peak,rms - awareness only)
4
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Angle of Incidence (sketch)
5
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Angle of Reflection (sketch)
6
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Angle of Refraction (sketch)
7
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Antinode
8
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Aperture
9
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Brewsters Law
10
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Coherent Waves
11
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Compression

12
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Constructive Interference

13
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Crest

14
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critical damping

15
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Cycle

16
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Damped Oscillations (describe examples)

17
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Damping

18
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Degree of Damping
19
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Destructive Interference
20
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Diffraction

21
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Doppler Effect

22
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Focal Length

23
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Focal Point

24
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Forced Oscillations

25
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Frequency

26
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Frequency Response Curve

27
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Hertz

28
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In Phase

29
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Intensity

30
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Linear Magnification

31
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Longitudinal Wave (and examples)

32
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Malus' Law

33
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Mode of Vibration (string)

34
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Monochromatic

35
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Natural Frequency of Vibration
36
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Node

37
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Normal

38
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Optically Active Substance

39
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Oscillating or Reciprocating Vibration (describe examples)

40
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Out of Phase

41
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Partial Reflection

42
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Period

43
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Periodic (Wave)

44
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Phase Difference

45
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Polarization

46
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Principal Axis

47
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Pulse (positive and negative)

48
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Rarefaction
49
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Rayleigh Criterion

50
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Reflection

51
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Refraction

52
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Resolution

53
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Resonance

54
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Rest Position, Neutral or Equilibrium

55
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Scattering

56
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Simple Harmonic Motion

57
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Snells Law

58
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Standing Wave

59
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Superposition

60
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Sympathetic Vibration

61
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Transmission

62
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Transverse Wave (and examples)

63
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Trough

64
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Wave

65
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Wave Front
66
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Wave Ray

67
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Wavelength

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