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What is a wave? Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #1 8th Grade PSI

1. What causes a wave?

2. In terms of wave motion, define medium.

3. In your own terms, define equilibrium position.

4. Compare/Contrast Pulse and Wave.

5. In a transverse wave, compare the direction of vibration of the particles in the medium to the direction that the wave is moving.

6. List at least 3 examples of wave motion as witnessed in your daily life.


What is a wave? Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #1 8th Grade PSI

7. Explain how a disturbance in a medium causes a wave to form.

8. List 3 examples of wave motion. List the medium for each type of wave.

9. Make a sketch that shows the difference between a pulse and a wave.

10. Make a sketch of a transverse wave. Include directions of particle vibration and direction of wave motion.

11. Define the concept of equilibrium/rest position and explain what causes matter in the medium to move away from this position during wave motion.


Parts of a Wave Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #2 8th Grade PSI

12. Label the parts of a wave seen below including Crests, Troughs, Equilibrium/Rest position, Amplitude, and wavelength.

13. Define the following terms:

Crest-

Trough-

Equilibrium/Rest Position-

Amplitude-

Wavelength-

14. Describe the relationship between a wave’s amplitude and energy.

15. If a wave has a period of 0.5 s, what is its frequency? Show your work.

16. If a wave has a frequency of 100 Hz, What is its period? Show your work.

17. What happens to the frequency of a wave as the period of the wave INCREASES?


Parts of a Wave Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #2 8th Grade PSI

18. Produce a sketch of a wave that labels the wave’s crests, troughs, amplitude, wavelength, and equilibrium position.

19. What happens to the energy of wave when its amplitude halves?

20. What is the equation for calculating frequency when we know the wave period?

21. What is the wave period when the frequency is 250 Hz? Show your work.

22. What the wave frequency when the period is 0.2 s? Show your work.


The Wave Equation Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #3 8th Grade PSI

23. Write the wave equation and list the units for each variable in this equation.

24. What is the wave velocity when a water wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 2 Hz? Show your work.

25. What is the wave velocity when a sound wave has a frequency of 512 Hz and a wavelength of 0.67 m? Show your work.

26. What is the wavelength of a sound wave that has a frequency of 800 Hz, and a velocity of 340 m/s? Show your work.

27. What is the wavelength of a slinky wave that travels at 35 m/s and has a frequency of 7 Hz? Show your work.

28. What is the frequency of a tidal wave that travels at a velocity of 100 m/s and has a wavelength of 33.33 m? Show your work.


The Wave Equation Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #3 8th Grade PSI

29. This is the wave equation, define each symbol & list the unit for each variable.

30. What is the velocity of a sound wave with a frequency of 300 Hz and a wavelength of 1.14 m? Show your work.

31. What is the wavelength of a water wave that travels at a velocity of 33 m/s with a frequency of 11 Hz? Show your work.

32. What is the velocity of a seismic wave that has a wavelength of 3m and a frequency of 500 Hz? Show your work.

33. What is the frequency of a vibration that travels at a velocity of 99 m/s with a wavelength of 9 m?


Properties of Waves Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #4 8th Grade PSI

34. Draw and describe what happens to a reflected wave and the energy it transports.

35. Compare and contrast free end and fixed end reflection for a wave in a string.

36. Describe what wave transmission is and give an example.

37. Why is it hard to hear someone that is yelling from far away?

38. Define refraction and describe what happens to a wave’s velocity and wavelength as it moves from a) a less dense to a denser medium (example: air to water) and b) a denser to less dense medium (example: diamond to air).

39. Draw a diagram of diffraction and list a basic definition of the phenomenon.

40. Define constructive and destructive Interference


Properties of Waves Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #4 8th Grade PSI

41. Explain why you might be able to hear a television that is playing in the next

room through the walls. Why might the sound be muffled?

42. What is diffraction? What factors increase the amount of diffraction?

43. What is refraction? What happens to the a) velocity, b) frequency, and c) wavelength of a wave as it changes medium?

44. Draw a sketch of 2 wave pulses in a string that are undergoing constructive interference a) before they collide, b) during the collision, and c) after the collision.

Before

During After

45. Draw a sketch of 2 wave pulses in a string that are undergoing destructive

interference a) before they collide, b) during the collision, and c) after the collision.

Before

During After


Sound as a Wave Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #5 8th Grade PSI

46. What is the source of any sound wave?

47. Compare the sound waves produced by longer/shorter vibrating objects.

48. Relate the terms frequency and pitch in terms of sound waves.

49. Relate the terms amplitude and loudness in terms of sound waves.

50. What is the hearing frequency range for most human beings?


Sound as a Wave Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #5 8th Grade PSI

51. How do vibrating objects create sound waves?

52. What is the unit for measuring different sound amplitudes as heard by humans? How does the ear interpret amplitude of sound waves?

53. What is the unit for sound wave frequency? How does the ear interpret frequency of sound waves?

54. Explain how the length of a musical instrument affects the frequency/pitch of the sound waves it produces.

55. Speculate on the effect of aging on the frequency range that is detectible by the human ear. (use the internet as a research tool if necessary)


Sound as a Mechanical Wave Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #6 8th Grade PSI

56. What is a mechanical wave?

57. Why can’t you hear in space?

58. Define a longitudinal wave. Draw a diagram to illustrate the compressions and rarefactions.

59. Compare/Contrast compressions and rarefactions.

60. Compare vibrational direction of a medium to wave direction for a longitudinal wave.


Sound as a Mechanical Wave Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #6 8th Grade PSI

61. How are longitudinal waves similar and different to transverse waves?

62. Draw a diagram that makes the analogy of a longitudinal wave into a transverse drawing.

63. Why does a vibrating object require a medium to produce sound?

64. Where is pressure greatest? In a compression or rarefaction. Explain.

65. Write a paragraph on how the ear detects sound waves during hearing.


Properties of Sound Waves Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #7 8th Grade PSI

66. How is the wave property of reflection used in SONAR?

67. What is the speed of sound in air if it travels a distance of 3740 m in 11 seconds? Show your work.

68. Explain the effect of increasing air temperature on the speed of sound in air.

69. How far are we away from a mountain if an echo returns in 15 seconds if the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s? Show your work.

70. Explain the concept of “echolocation” as used by dolphins and bats.


Properties of Sound Waves Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #7 8th Grade PSI

71. When would you hear thunder sooner, on a hot day or a cold day?

72. Rank the speed of sound in a solid, liquid and gas from slowest to fastest. Explain what causes the difference in speed.

73. What is the speed of sound in air if it travels a distance of 5610 m in 12 seconds? Show your work.

74. How far are we away from a mountain if an echo returns in 9 seconds if the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s? Show your work.


The Doppler Effect Classwork Name: ____________________ Classwork #8 8th Grade PSI

75. Define the Doppler Effect.

76. Explain an example of the Doppler Effect that you have observed in your daily life.

77. This is a diagram of the Doppler Effect. In your own terms, explain what happens in front of and in back of the moving sound source.

78. What happens to the frequency heard by an observer that is moving toward a stationary sound source?

79. What happens to the sound waves of a sound source that is moving faster than speed of sound? Draw a diagram to illustrate this event.


The Doppler Effect Homework Name: ____________________ Homework #8 8th Grade PSI

80. Draw a diagram of the Doppler Effect and explain it in your own terms.

81. What happens to the wavelength and frequency of sound waves a) in front and b) in back of a moving sound source?

82. Draw a diagram of a sound source moving at supersonic speeds. Explain your diagram.

83. Draw a diagram of the sound waves surrounding a stationary sound source. Does the Doppler Effect apply to this situation? Why or Why not?

84. When a car drives by us blowing its horn, how does the Doppler Effect apply to this situation?


Answer Key 1. A disturbance that travels through space or matter. 2. The type of matter a wave moves through. 3. The position the medium is found in when there is NO wave passing through it. 4. Both create disturbances in a medium. However, a pulse is a single disturbance that

moves outward while a wave is a series of pulses that produce repeating and periodic disturbances in the medium.

5. The particles vibrate in right angles to the direction the wave is moving. 6. Answers will vary. Ex: Air molecules and gases, water, and a slinky. 7. Particles of the medium are disturbed and move away from their rest position and

then bounce back to it. 8. Medium – rope. Raising and lowering a rope will create a wave.

Medium – water. Dropping a stone into a lake will cause the water to ripple out from point of contact. Medium – slinky. As the slinky is moved, a wave is created throughout the rest of the metal until it rests again.

9. A pulse will be one point of disturbance and a wave is a series of pulses. 10. See sketch below in #12. Particle vibration will be at right angles to the direction of

wave motion. 11. Rest position is the position of the medium when there is no wave moving through it.

When particles in the medium are disturbed, they move AWAY from rest position, and then back, creating a wave.

12.

13. Crest- Point of maximum positive displacement from EQ; Trough- Point of maximum negative displacement from EQ; Equilibrium/Rest Position- Medium position without a wave moving through it; Amplitude- maximum distance away from rest position; Wavelength- Distance a wave travels before its cycle repeats.

14. Energy is directly proportional to the square of the amplitude. 15. f=1/T, f=1/0.5s, f= 2 Hz 16. T=1/f, T=1/100Hz, T=0.01 s. 17. Decreases 18. See #12 19. It goes down by a ¼.

Crest

Trough

Wavelength

Amplitude

Equilibrium/Rest Position


20. Frequency = 1/period 21. T=1/f, T= 1/250Hz, T=0.004s 22. f=1/T, f=1/0.2s, f= 5Hz 23. v = λ f, v – wave velocity (m/s), λ – wavelength (m), and f is frequency (Hz). 24. v=(2m)(2 Hz) = 4 m/s 25. v=(0.67m)(512 Hz) = 343.04 m/s 26. λ=v/f = 340m/s / 800 Hz = 0.425 m 27. λ=v/f = 35 m/s / 7Hz = 5 m 28. f= v/λ =100 m/s / 33.3 m = 3 Hz. 29. v – wave velocity (m/s), λ – wavelength(m), and f is frequency(Hz). 30. v= λf = (1.14 m)(300 Hz) = 342 m/s 31. λ=v/f =(33 m/s) / (11 Hz) =3 m 32. v= λf = (3 m)(500 Hz) = 1500 m/s 33. f= v/λ = 99 m/s (9 m) = 11 Hz 34. A reflected wave hits a boundary, and then bounces back continuing to transport the

energy it had when it hit the boundary. 35. The free end reflection is in phase with the incident pulse. The fixed end reflection is

out of phase with the incident pulse. 36. When waves pass through a boundary. Sound waves transmitting through a wall. 37. Some of the sound wave energy decreases when the air absorbs it. 38. Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its transmission

medium and hence it’s velocity. a. The velocity decreases and the wavelength decreases. b. The velocity increases and the wavelength increases.

39. Diffraction is the bending of waves around small obstacles and the spreading out of waves past small openings.

40. Constructive Interference - Waves that are in phase (both vibrating in the same

direction) with each other will add up in amplitude to reinforce each other and they get bigger. Destructive Interference - Waves that are out of phase (both vibrating in the opposite direction) with each other will cancel out their amplitudes and they get smaller.

41. Some of the sound wave is transmitted through the walls. It won’t be as loud or clear because the wall also absorbs some of the sound wave.

42. Diffraction is the bending of waves around small obstacles and the spreading out of waves past small openings. The amount can be increased when the wavelength of the waves are similar in size to the opening they are passing through or the opening is really small.


43. Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its transmission medium. As a wave changes medium, the velocity and wavelength change while the frequency does not change.

44. Before

During After

45. Before

During (if complete destructive interference)

After

46. Vibrating objects. 47. Longer vibrating objects –sound waves with longer wavelengths.

Shorter vibrating objects –sound waves with shorter wavelengths. 48. High frequency sound waves are heard as high-pitched sounds. Low frequency

sound waves are heard as low-pitched sounds. 49. High amplitudes make sound waves louder. Low amplitudes make sound waves

softer. 50. 20 Hz – 20,000 Hz. 51. The vibrating objects create disturbances in the air (medium) and this creates sound

waves. 52. Decibel. The ear hears loudness or softness of a sound wave. 53. Hertz. Frequency of sound waves is interpreted as higher or lower pitches. 54. Larger and longer musical instruments vibrate slower than shorter musical

instruments. They (larger instruments) produce lower frequency/pitched sound waves than the higher frequency/pitched sound waves of smaller length instruments.

55. As humans age, higher frequency sounds are more indiscernible, if impossible to hear altogether.

56. A wave that has to have a medium or substance to move through. 57. There is no air in space (it is like a vacuum), so there is no medium for sound waves

to move through. 58. Waves that vibrate the medium parallel (in the same plane) to the direction of wave

motion.

Compression Rarefaction


59. As a vibrating object swings forward, it creates a region of low pressure called compression in the medium that moves outward. When the vibrating objects swing backwards, it creates a region of low pressure called a rarefaction.

60. Longitudinal Waves vibrate the medium parallel to the (i.e. in the same) direction of wave motion.

61. Both waves can vibrate through a medium, however, transverse waves vibrate at right angles to the direction of energy movement, while longitudinal waves vibrate parallel to the direction of wave motion.

62. Diagram below:

63. Without a medium, the energy of sound waves will not propagate. 64. In a compression when the object swings forward and pushes forward on the

medium. This moves the medium outward. 65. The sound strikes the eardrum and vibrates three bones (hammer anvil,stirrup).

Then, the cochlea changes the vibrations into electrical impulses. Finally, a signal is sent through the auditory nerve to brain.

66. SONAR uses the reflection of sound waves to map the sea floor of our oceans. 67. s=d/t = 3740 m/ 11 seconds = 340 m/s. 68. As the temperature increases, the speed of sound increases. 69. d=st = (340 m/s) (15 seconds/2) = 2550 meters away. 70. Animals use echolocation to "see" how far food is away by judging how fast the

sound waves return after reflection. 71. On a hot day, as the speed of sound increases with increasing temperature. 72. Gas, liquid and then solid. The spacing between particles in each medium affect the

speed. Particles in a gas are spaced far apart so it takes longer for sound vibrations to travel from one particle to the next.

73. s=d/t = (5610 m) / 12 seconds = 467.5 m/s 74. d= st = (340 m/s) (9 seconds/2) = 1530 meters away 75. It is the apparent change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an

observer moving relative to the wave source. 76. Answers will vary. Ex: As the ice cream man comes down the street, the music, at

first sounds higher pitched. Then, as the ice cream man passes and moves down the road, the music sounds lower pitched. The frequency of the sound wave increases as he approaches, and decreases as he drives away.

77. Diagram explanation:.

In front, decreased wavelength, increased frequency, and a higher pitch

Compression

Refraction

In back, increased wavelength, decreased frequency, and a lower pitch.


78. The frequency is increasing and a higher pitched sound is observed. 79. The sound source “catches up” to the sound waves it produces. Constructive

interference is undergone, and a wave with increased amplitude is produced. This creates an intense “sonic boom”.

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80. Diagram and explanation:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect#mediaviewer/File:Doppler_effect_diagrammatic.svg It is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source.

81. a) Wavelength decreases, frequency increases. b) Wavelength increases, frequency decreases.

82. Diagram/explanation: At supersonic speeds, the source of sound is ahead of the sound because it is traveling faster than the speed of sound.

83. Diagram/explanation:

It does not. By definition, the Doppler Effect is a change in frequency and wavelength of a wave when the source is in motion compared to the observer.

84. As the car approaches, the frequency of the sound increases, producing a higher pitched sound. When the car passes us, the frequency decreases creating a lower pitched sound.

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