Time period: Time it takes for one full Transverse Waves: wave to pass a point (seconds).
Frequency: The number of waves passing a
Particles vibrate at right angles to the point per second (Hertz). direction the wave is travelling. Eg light. Longitudinal Waves: Wavelength: The distance between 2 High Short frequency crests or 2 troughs (metres). wavelength
Particles vibrate parallel to the direction
Amplitude: The maximum distance away Low Long the wave is travelling. Eg sound. from the rest position (metres) frequency wavelength
Refraction When a wave
enters a more CP4 Wave speeds Incident ray Normal dense material, Wave speed (v, in m/s) Angle of it bends towards d is distance (d, in Refraction: is the change in incidence i the normal. metres) divided by speed and direction when a Angle of time (t, in seconds). refraction v x t wave enters a new material. r
i Waves can be shown
Normal: is the line at 90o to the as wavefronts (like Wave speed (v, in boundary of the new material, looking down on the m/s) is frequency (f, in hertz) multiplied v that meets the ray at the r When a wave sea). Waves can be boundary. enters a less refracted towards the by wavelength (λ, in Normal dense material, normal in shallow it bends away metres). f x λ water from the normal. Produced by S Meunier Describing Waves Wave speeds