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waves
SCIENCE 7
QUARTER 3
Most Essential Learning Competency
Describe the characteristics of sound using the concepts of wavelength, velocity, and
amplitude
Wave
– is a disturbance that moves away from a source and carries energy
with it.
- propagates through matter or vacuum.
- the disturbance in a wave is called vibration or oscillation.

Medium (s) or Media (p)

- is any substance through which waves travel, such as solid, liquid, or
gas.
 1. CREST
4. WAVELENGTH

5.
3. EQUILIBRIUM
AMPLITUDE

2. TROUGH

1. The highest part of a wave.

2. The lowest part of a wave.
3. The maximum distance from the horizontal line in the middle of the wave up to crest or down to trough.
4. The distance between two consecutive wave crests or between two consecutive wave troughs.
5. The horizontal line in the middle of the wave.
 KINDS OF WAVES

Mechanical waves – require a medium such as solid, liquid, and gas to propagate.

Electromagnetic waves – do not require matter to propagate and can therefore travel
in vacuum.
 TYPES OF MECHANICAL WAVES
TRANSVERSE WAVE
- particles move perpendicularly to the direction of the wave motion
- moves up and down
Example of Transverse Wave
LONGITUDINAL WAVE
- particles move parallel to the direction of the wave motion
- moves back and forth

Compression Rarefaction Compression Rarefaction

Example of Longitudinal Wave
SOUND WAVES
Sound waves
- are mechanical waves that need a medium to be propagated. Vibrations of the
medium create a series of compression and rarefaction which result to longitudinal waves

- can travel in all media but not in vacuum

- travel fastest in matter that is closely packed like solid and slowest in matter that is
loosely packed like gas
Frequency
– is the number of crests or troughs that pass a certain point within one second.
- measured in Hertz (Hz) Note: Heinrich Hertz a German physicist who
proved the existence of waves.
Period
– time it takes for one wave cycle to complete
- symbolized by capital T
 Wave Speed
- distance moved by a wave in a given period of time

Relationship among Speed,

Frequency, and Wavelength

v =f
Wave speed is equal to the product of wavelength and its frequency

v is the velocity
f is the frequency
(read as lambda) is the wavelength
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