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The period of a 2 Hz wave. What is 0.5 or one-half? The speed of a wave with wavelength 20 m and period of 5 seconds. What is 4 m/s? The velocity of a wave with a frequency of 6 Hz and a wavelength of 3 m. What is 18 m/s? The wavelength of a wave with speed 200 m/s and a frequency of 25 m/s. What is 8 m? The time for an echo to reflect off a wall, back to you if you’re 100 m away at 0 degrees C? What is 0.61 s? Waves bouncing off a barrier What is reflection? Waves passing through an object with little change in energy. What is transmission? Phenomena that causes the formation of nodes and antinodes. What is interference? The phenomenon allowing one to hear around corners. What is diffraction? The direction (towards or away from the normal, or not at all) a wave refracts when passing into a medium through which it moves more quickly than the one it is coming from. What is away from the normal? The vertical axis of a graph The y-axis (or ordinate) The horizontal axis on a graph What is the x-axis (or abcissa) The ratio of a change in a line’s ordinate to the change in abcissa What is the slope? The variable form of the slope on a position-time graph What is ∆x/∆t ? The value of the given slope at a given point on a line on a position/time graph What is velocity? An increase or decrease of velocity What is acceleration? Change in velocity divided by total time for change to take place What is average acceleration? Acceleration at a given instant What is instantaneous acceleration? The state in which a body is only affected by gravity What is free-fall? 9.81 m/s 2 What is acceleration due to gravity on earth? A measurement that has only magnitude. What is a scalar? A measurement that has magnitude and direction. What is a vector? A vector that is the sum of two or more vectors What is a resultant vector? The two parts a vector may be broken into What are components? The resultant of a 20 m/s north vector, and a 20 m/s south vector What is 0 m/s?