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| The distance from crest to crest or trough to trough. |
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| A long-period wave caused by an underwater seismic disturbance or volcanic eruption. |
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| Half of the peak-to-trough range (or height) of a wave. |
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| Anything that has mass and occupies space. |
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| Not moving. At a stop point. |
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| Be side by side with, always keeping the same distance. |
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| A straight line at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface. |
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| Air, water, or solid (gas, liquid, solid). |
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| The action of compressing or being compressed. |
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| The rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample. |
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| A mechanical wave is a disturbance that moves through a medium. The medium itself doesn't go anywhere. It's all energy with atoms and molecules. |
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| When light rays break from a cubic crystal and they form different colours in straight lines. |
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| An instance of vibrating. |
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| The transfer of energy of a given form among different scales of motion; for example, kinetic energy may be transferred between the zonal and meridional components of the wind, or between the mean and eddy components of the wind. |
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| The top of the wave or hill. |
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| The bottom of the wave or hill. |
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| A wave vibrating at right angles to the direction of its propagation. |
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| The capacity to do work. Work is done by transferring energy from one form to another. |
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| Longitudinal (compression) Wave |
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| Longitudinal waves are waves that have the same direction of vibration along their direction of travel, which means that the vibration of the medium (particle) is in the same direction or opposite direction as the motion of the wave. |
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A repeating disturbance or movement that
transfers energy through matter or space. |
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