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Waves - Label

1. The document is a worksheet labeling parts of waves and identifying properties of different types of waves. 2. It includes diagrams of waves and questions asking students to identify features like the crest, trough, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency of waves. 3. The worksheet also contains questions about longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and electromagnetic waves, asking students to determine properties like speed, period, and wavelength based on given information.

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Waves - Label

1. The document is a worksheet labeling parts of waves and identifying properties of different types of waves. 2. It includes diagrams of waves and questions asking students to identify features like the crest, trough, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency of waves. 3. The worksheet also contains questions about longitudinal waves, transverse waves, and electromagnetic waves, asking students to determine properties like speed, period, and wavelength based on given information.

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Name______________________________________________________________Date__________Period____

WORKSHEET - LABELING WAVES


crest trough
1. The highest point on a wave is the _________________, while the lowest point is the _________________.
amplitude
2. The _________________ of a wave is a measure of the amount of energy it carries.
wavelength
3. The distance from one crest to the next crest is the _________________.
frwquency
4. The _________________ is a measure of the number of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time.

5. The illustration to the right shows a wave.


Label each part in the space below:
crest
a. ____________________
trough
b. ____________________
amplitude
c. ____________________
wavelength
d. ____________________

6. Use the five illustrations of waves drawn below to answer the following questions:

frequency
(a) Waves P and Q have the same ______________, amplitude
but wave P has twice the ______________ of wave Q.

amplitude
(b) Waves Q and R have the same ______________,but wavelength
wave R has twice the ______________ of wave Q.
T
(c) Wave ______________ shows a steady frequency but changing amplitude.

S
(d) Wave ______________ shows steady amplitude but a changing frequency.
Q R
(e) Waves ______________ and ______________ have a low amplitude and a steady frequency.

7. The following questions refer to the diagram to the right:

(a) Is this wave transverse or longitudinal?


longitundinal
compression
(b) Letter H represents a ______________ and
rarefaction
letter I represents a ______________.

(c) wavelength
Letter G represents a ______________.
8. A kid on a playground swing makes 6 complete to-and-fro swings
each 30 seconds.
0.2 6/30
(a) The frequency of the swinging is __________.
Hz

(b) The period of the swinging is __________.


5 secs T=1/f

9. Complete the statements in the diagrams below:

0.02 =0.125
Hz
f=1/440

10. A machine gun fires 10 rounds per second.


The speed of the bullets is 300 m/s.

What is the distance in the air between the


flying bullets? __________

11. The bird below watches the wave crests.

(a) If four crests pass the pole each second,


what is the speed of the wave?
__________

(b) What is its period? __________

12. In what type of wave is the vibration perpendicular to the direction of travel of the wave?
____________________
transverse
longitudinal
13. What type of wave vibrates parallel to the direction of travel? ____________________
longitudinal
14. What type of wave contains compressions and rarefactions? ____________________

15. What type of wave is produced when you move one end of a horizontal spring up and down?
transverse
____________________
longitundinal, transverse and electromagnetic
16. What type of wave has a wavelength? ____________________

17. Obtain a ruler and determine the


wavelength of the wave to the right.
lampda
Wavelength = __________

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