Waves

Recap
Instructions: Read each item carefully. Then, choose the letter of the
correct answer.

______1. What is acceleration?

A. the rate of change in time C. the rate of change in distance
B. the rate of change in motion D. the rate of change in displacement

_______2. Which of the following is the most common graph to represent

acceleration?
A. distance vs time C. velocity vs time
B. velocity vs distance D. acceleration vs time

_______3. What is the acceleration of a race car reaching 6m/s in 3s

starting from 0?
A. 1m/ B. 2m/ C. 3m/ D. 6m/
______4. Two athletes raced to the finish line. Athlete B finished
before athlete A. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Athlete A is faster.
B. Athlete A has shorter time.
C. Athlete B has lower velocity.
D. Athlete B has greater acceleration.

_____5. Which of the graphs has the highest acceleration?

A. Red
B. Blue
C. Green
D. All have the same acceleration
 Light
Earthquake
Waves on
water Waves are everywhere! on land

Waves on Sound that

rope you hear
Two Types of Waves
Waves
Mechanical
 waves that need a medium to
propagate
 Mechanical waves transfer
mechanical energy by
transferring motion through
contact.
 Ex: Earthquake, Sound in air,
water waves
Electromagnetic
 waves that need no medium to
propagate
 oscillating electric and magnetic
field that can travel through
vacuum
 Ex: Light, radio wave, microwave,
infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, and
gamma ray
Waves propagate in 2 ways
Transverse Waves Longitudinal Waves

move perpendicular to the  travel parallel to the wave’s

direction direction
Particles move up and down  The particles move forward
as they move forward and back as the wave moves
forward

Watch  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3Kr5DCAtI
Parts of Transverse Wave
1.Crest – highest
point of wave
2.Trough – lowest
point of wave
3.Wavelength –
space between
waves
4.Amplitude –
displacement from
the normal line to
the crest/trough,
also known as the
height of the wave
Parts of Longitudinal Wave
1.Compression -
area of high
density of
particles
2.Rarefaction -
area with less
particles.

Frequency is not a
part of wave, but it
is the number of
instances that a
wave has occurred
within one second.
 Nature of
Sound Waves
 Production and Propagation of Sound Wave
sound waves
Mechanical need a
wave medium in
Sound wave
Longitudinal order to travel
Wave or propagate

How are sound waves produced? travel back

and forth or
Vibration of objects or different media parallel to the
causes the production of sound direction of
wave
No vibration = No sound propagation
sound waves cannot propagate or be produced in a
vacuum

Vacuum is a space in which there

is no matter or in which the 
pressure is so low that any
particles in the space do not affect
any processes being carried on
there. 
Speed of Sound Waves in Different Media

Sound waves can only be

produced and propagated if
there’s a medium
can also travel in different media
speed of sound waves depends
on the type of medium where
they travel
 particles of a solid
particles of a liquid particles of a gas
medium are compact
medium are slightly medium are very far
or very close to each
close to each other to each other
other
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