5 Questions
What is the main difference between transverse waves and longitudinal waves?
Transverse waves have crests and troughs, while longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?
Frequency is the number of wavelengths that pass a point per second.
What happens when waves encounter different materials?
Waves can be transmitted, absorbed, or reflected.
What is refraction in the context of waves?
Refraction occurs when a wave changes direction as it passes through a new material.
How do lenses interact with light?
Lenses can refract light, convergent lenses bring light together, and divergent lenses spread it out.
Study Notes
- Waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
- Transverse waves have crests and troughs, while longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.
- Frequency is the number of wavelengths that pass a point per second.
- Wavelength is the distance between two crests or compressions.
- Waves can be transmitted, absorbed, or reflected when they encounter different materials.
- Refraction occurs when a wave changes direction as it passes through a new material.
- Reflection can be specular or diffuse, depending on the surface.
- The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of transverse waves with different frequencies.
- Visible light is a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can detect.
- Different colors of light are reflected by objects, while other colors are absorbed.
- Lenses can refract light, with convergent lenses bringing light together and divergent lenses spreading it out.
Test your knowledge on waves and light behavior with this quiz covering key concepts such as wave energy transfer, wave types, frequency, refraction, reflection, the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light, and lens behavior.
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