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IPC Unit 7
IPC Unit 7 Waves Vocabulary
Definition | Term |
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change in direction of a wave as it moves from one medium to another | refraction |
the process where two or more waves combine to form a new wave | interference |
a wave behavior in which waves strike an object and bounce back off | reflection |
measure of the size of the disturbance of a wave; height on the y-axis | amplitude |
the linear distance between identical points on successive waves | wavelength |
the number of times a wave passes a certain point in a given amount of time | frequency |