Guide questions for Interference, Reflection and Diffraction

1. What is Superposition?
2. When does superposition happen?
3. What is Interference Pattern?
4. How are interference pattern formed?
5. What is Constructive Interference?
6. How are Constructive Interference formed?
7. What is Destructive Interference?
8. How are Destructive Interference formed?
9. What is a crest of a wave?
10. What is a trough of a wave?
11. What happens to waves that hit a boundary that is free to move?
12. What happens to waves that it hit a boundary that is fixed?
13. What is Diffraction?
14. When a resultant wave has greater amplitude than the individual waves, this is called
_________.
15. When a resultant wave has lesser amplitude than the individual waves, this is called
__________.

Guide questions for Wave Characteristics

1. What is a wave?
2. What is a pulse?
3. What are the two types of waves?
4. What are mechanical waves?
5. Give one example of mechanical waves.
6. What are electromagnetic waves?
7. Give one example of electromagnetic waves.
8. What is a transverse wave?
9. Give an example of a transverse wave.
10. What is a longitudinal wave?
11. Give an example of a longitudinal wave.
12. The peaks of a transverse wave is called _________.
13. The valley of a transverse wave is called _________.
14. The distance between two corresponding points of a wave is called the _______.
15. The distance between the middle part of the wave to the top of a crest or bottom of a trough is
called the ______________ of the wave.
16. The number of complete wavelengths produced per second is called the __________ of the
wave.
17. The time for one complete wavelength to be produced is called the _________ of the wave.
18. What is the unit of frequency?
19. What is the unit of period?
20. What is the symbol of wavelength?

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