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What do sea waves do

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Transfer energy to the shore, when they hit the land, the energy is transferred to the land so it can wear it away

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What type of waves are waves on a surface of water

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Transverse particles in the water move up and down as a wave passes but the particles are not carried to shore

Looks like a wiggly line

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What are ttype of waves are sound waves

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Longitudinal the particles in the material which is wave is traveling move backwards and forwards as wave passes

Look like loads of dots lol

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What type of waves are earthquakes and explosions

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They produce seismic waves that travel through the Earth, solid rock material can be pushed and pulled (longitudinal seismic waves) or moved up and down and side to side (transverse seismic waves)

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What’s wave frequency

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The number of waves passing a point each second, measured in hertz (Hz)

A 1 frequency of Herts means 1 wave passing per second,

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What does the frequency of waves determine for sound

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The pitch

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What does frequency determine for light

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The colour of light

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What’s the period in waves

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The length of time it take one wave to pass a given point

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What’s the wavelength of a wave

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Is the distance from a point on one wave to the same position on the next wave and is measured in metres

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What’s the amplitude of waves

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The maximum distance of a point on the wave away from its rest position

Measured in metres, the greater the amplitude of sound wave, louder the sound

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What’s the velocity of a wave

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The speed of the wave in the direction it’s travelling

Waves travel at different speeds in different materials

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How is fm radio sent?

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The music is sent by variations in the frequency of radio waves

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Tell me the speed of wave triangle thing

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X on top

V and T on bottom

X=distance
V=speed
T=time

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What triangle link wave speed to frequency

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V on top (speed)

F and weird sign thing that means wavelength on bottom

F=frequency
Wavelength symbol = wavelength

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at what speed does light travel at in a vacuum

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300000000 m/s (300 million)

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How can you measure the speed of waves

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Measure the time it takes for a wave to travel between two fixed points - the speed can be calculated from the time and distance between the points

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What is refraction

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When a wave changed direction when entering a new medium

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Where does refraction happen

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At the interface (boundary) between 2 media

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What is the normal line

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A line at right angles to the interface

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How do we see things

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We see things when light reflected from them reach our eyes

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Which of the following does light travel fastest

Air
Glass
Water

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Air

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What happens when light passes the interface

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It changes speed and this change cause the direction of light to change

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What does the bend of the refraction depend on

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How past the light travels into the two media and the angle of the light hitting the interface

The greater the difference in speed between the two media, the more light is bent

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Which direction does light bend when light slows down

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Towards the normal

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What are the options of thighs a wave can do when it reaches an interface
Reflect - waves bounce off Refract - the wave passes into the new material but changes direction to they way it's traveling Transmit - the wave passes the the material and is not absorbed or reflected Absorb- the wave disappears as the energy its carrying is transferred in to the material
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What happens when a wave is absorbed at an interface
The wave disappears as the Energy its carrying is transferred to the material
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What happens when a wave is transmitted at an interface
The wave passes through the material and is not absorbed or reflected
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What's white light
Emitted from sun and light bulbs, made of a mixture of different frequency light and different colours, the different colours In light change speed by different amounts when the travel from glass to air or air to glass This means they are redrafted through varying angles
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How can you split white light
Can be split up into by a prism into colours of the rainbow
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How can sound waves reflect
They echo when reflected by a hard surface - some material absorb sound and some transmit it well Also reflected when It goes into another material
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What's an anechoic chamber
A room designed to remove all echoes and used to test loud speakers and other audio equipment
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What changes when a sound wave enters a new material
The wavelength and velocity NOT THE FREQUENCY
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How mast does s sound wave travel in air
330m/s
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What frequency does a sound wave have
10kHz
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What type of wave are sound waves
Longitudinal so particles in a gas or liquid vintage forward and backwards as sound passes
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What happens when sound reaches a solid
Some of the energy its transferring is reflected and some is transmitted through the solid or absorbed by it
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What type of wave are vibrations in s solid
Either longitudinal or transverse waves
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How does a sound wave travel through air to a solid
A sound wave causes changes in pressure on the surface, this caused particles to vibrate and so the disturbance is passed from air to solid
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What's the first step to hearing s sound
Sound waves enter the ear canal
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What's the second step to hearing sounds
The eardrum is a thin membrane, sound waves make it vibrate
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What's the third step to hearing a sound
Vibrations are passed on to tiny bones with amplify the vibrations (make them bigger)
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What's the fourth step to hearing a sound
Vibrations are passed on to the liquid inside the Cochlea
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What's the fifth step to hearing a sound
Tiny hairs inside the cochlea detect these vibrations and create electrical signals called impulses
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What's the sixth step to hearing a sound
Impulses travel along neurones in the auditory nerve to reach the brain
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What diameter is the cochlea
Approximately 9 mm
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How does the cochlea work
It's a coiled tube containing a liquid, it can detect different frequencies of sound reaching the ear
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What range of frequencies can a human hear
20hz to 20,000hz
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What's the cochlea like
There's a memebrane in the middle of the tube that's thicker and stiffer at the base and thinner at the apex(end) t It works by different frequencies of membrane (made tk of thousand of hair cells) detect vibrations At different thicknesses, different frequencies are detected each hair cd is connected to a neurone that send an impulse to the brain and the brain interprets the signals as different pitches of sound
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What range of frequencies does the thicker base detect
Highest ones up to 20,000hz
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What is the frequency range for humans
20,000hz - 20hz
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What are sounds with frequencies higher than 20,000hz also known as
Ultrasound
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What can hear ultrasound
Animals such as mice - use it to communicate with eachother Dolphins and bats use it to detect object around them using ultrasound waves
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How does sonar equipment use ultrasound
Sonar equipment carried on ships or submarines send waves out and they listen for echoed when waves are reflected by objects, they measure the time for the echo being send and it being returned and used distance, time , speed triangle to determine how far away objects are Can be used to find depth of sea too
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How can ultrasound be used for humans
Making images of how a foetus is devolving by a machine detecting the time between the pulse out and recurring the echo It creates an image by only some waves are reflected by going to a new medium such as fat or bone
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What is infrasound
Sounds with a frequency less than 20hz - they can not be heard by humans
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What can hear infrasound
Since infrasound waves travel further than higher frequency sound waves before they become to faint to detect Animals such as elephants can Hear them
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What events can create infrasound waves
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
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What are the vibrations called that are caused by earthquakes
Seismic waves, the energy released by an earthquake can travel through earth as longitudinal P waves and as transversal S waves
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How are seismic waves detected
By seismometers
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What mediums can longitudinal waves be transmitted through
Solids, liquids, gases
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What mediums can transverse waves travel through
Only transmitted by solids
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What's the S wave shadow zone
Where no S waves are detected and occurs Becuase part of the interior or the earth is liquid Also a band around Earth called the p wave shadow zone
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How do some weak p waves arrive through the p wave shadow zone
Occur if waves in the liquid core has been reflected by something solid
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Tell me the layers of the earth starting from the dry surface
Crust Mantle Outer core (liquid) Inner core (solid)

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