Here are the questions we covered in our study of waves today. If you didn’t get enough info, see section 15.1 of your book.

Your Homework is to please make sure you have a basic grasp of these ideas so that we can start moving ahead tomorrow…

What is a wave?

What types of things are waves?

What do waves do?

How do waves look?

How do waves behave?

Are all waves alike?

How do we measure waves?

Words to Remember:

- energy
- medium
- mechanical wave
- vibration
- transverse wave
- crest
- trough
- longitudinal wave
- compression
- rarefaction