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Waves - Sound - Light - Water
(See also Electromagnetic Waves and Plate Tectonics)
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Longitudinal - Transverse - Amplitude - Wavelength - Frequency | ||
1 | What do Waves do? | Answer |
2 | Describe the movement of Particles in a Longitudinal Wave. | Answer |
3 | Give an Example of something which travels as a Longitudinal Wave. | Answer |
4 | Describe the movement of Particles in a Transverse Wave. | Answer |
5 | How would you measure the Amplitude of a Transverse Wave? | Answer |
6 | What does the Amplitude tell you about a Wave? | Answer |
7 | How would you measure the Wavelength of a Transverse Wave? | Answer |
8 | What Unit is Wavelength measured in? | Answer |
9 | Define Frequency. | Answer |
10 | What Unit is Frequency measured in? | Answer |
11 | What is the Period of a Wave? | Answer |
12 | Give the Equation which connects Period and Frequency. | Answer |
13 | Give the Equation which connects Velocity, Frequency and Wavelength. | Answer |
14 | What Velocity has a Wave with Frequency 3250 Hz and Wavelength 0·1 m? | Answer |
15 | What Wavelength has a Wave with Frequency 500 Hz and Velocity 330 m/s? | Answer |
16 | What Frequency has a Wave with Wavelength 10 m and Velocity 25 m/s? | Answer |
Sound - Loudness - Pitch - Echo - Ultrasound | ||
17 | Is Sound a Longitudinal or a Transverse Wave? | Answer |
18 | Can Sound travel through a Vacuum? | Answer |
19 | How can an Object produce Sound Waves? | Answer |
20 | Does Sound travel Faster under Water or in Air? | Answer |
21 | Does Sound travel Faster than Light? | Answer |
22 | What does the Loudness of Sound depend on? | Answer |
23 | What does Pitch mean? | Answer |
24 | What does the Pitch of Sound depend on? | Answer |
25 | What is an Echo? | Answer |
26 | What is the Natural Echo of a Room called? | Answer |
27 | What is the Frequency Range of Sound that People can Hear? | Answer |
28 | How can Hearing be Damaged? | Answer |
29 | Give one Example of Noise Pollution. | Answer |
30 | What is Ultrasound? | Answer |
31 | What is Pre-Natal Scanning? | Answer |
32 | How can Ultrasound be used to measure the Depth of Sea Water? | Answer |
33 | How can Ultrasound be used to Catch Fish? | Answer |
Light - Reflection - Refraction - Lenses - Optical Fibre - Colour | ||
34 | Is Light a Longitudinal or a Transverse Wave? | Answer |
35 | Is Light an Electromagnetic Wave? | Answer |
36 | Can Light travel through a Vacuum? | Answer |
37 | Does Light travel Faster than Sound? | Answer |
38 | After Reflection, has the Direction, Speed, Frequency or Wavelength Changed? | Answer |
39 | What type of Surface would be a Good Reflector for Light? | Answer |
40 | Which Light Ray is called the Incident Ray? | Answer |
41 | For Reflection, what does the Angle of Incidence Equal? | Answer |
42 | What type of Surface would cause Diffuse Reflection? | Answer |
43 | What is a Virtual Image? | Answer |
44 | When does Refraction occur? | Answer |
45 | After Refraction, has the Direction, Speed, Frequency or Wavelength Changed? | Answer |
46 | Give two Examples of Transparent Materials. | Answer |
47 | Why does Light travel at Different Speeds in Different Materials? | Answer |
48 | Does Light travel Faster in Air or in Glass? | Answer |
49 | What is a Normal? | Answer |
50 | Does Light Change Direction along a Normal? | Answer |
51 | Does Light Change Direction when it travels not along a Normal? | Answer |
52 | When does Light Bend Towards the Normal? | Answer |
53 | Is a Convex Lens a Converging Lens? | Answer |
54 | Is a Convex Lens Thicker in the Middle? | Answer |
55 | What is the Principle Axis? | Answer |
56 | When does a Convex Lens act as a Magnifying Glass? | Answer |
57 | Does a Concave Lens produce an Image which is Virtual? | Answer |
58 | Does a Concave Lens produce an Image which is Upright? | Answer |
59 | What does Critical Angle mean? | Answer |
60 | When does Total Internal Reflection occur? | Answer |
61 | Show a Right Angle Prism changing a Light Ray Direction by 90 Degrees. | Answer |
62 | Show how two Right Angle Prisms can be used to make a Periscope. | Answer |
63 | How can a Periscope be used? | Answer |
64 | Show a Right Angle Prism changing a Light Ray Direction by 180 Degrees. | Answer |
65 | What is an Optical Fibre? | Answer |
66 | How does an Optical Fibre Transmit Light? | Answer |
67 | What does Telecommunications mean? | Answer |
68 | Can an Optical Fibre carry More Information than a Copper Wire? | Answer |
69 | Who would use an Endoscope? | Answer |
70 | How does an Endoscope use Optical Fibres? | Answer |
71 | What are the Seven Colours of Light called? | Answer |
72 | Do Different Colours of Light have Different Frequencies? | Answer |
73 | Do Different Colours of Light have Different Wavelengths? | Answer |
74 | Which Colour is Refracted Most through a 60 Degree Prism? | Answer |
Water - Reflection - Refraction - Diffraction | ||
75 | Can a Longitudinal Wave travel through Water? | Answer |
76 | Can a Transverse Wave travel through Water? | Answer |
77 | After Reflection, has the Direction, Speed, Frequency or Wavelength Changed? | Answer |
78 | When will a Water Wave Refract? | Answer |
79 | What will change the Amount of Refraction? | Answer |
80 | What will a Diffracted Wave do? | Answer |
81 | When will Diffraction occur? | Answer |
82 | After Diffraction, has the Speed, Frequency or Wavelength Changed? | Answer |
83 | Show a Water Wave Diffracting through a Gap in a Harbour Wall. | Answer |
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