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6.1 Waves
What is waves ? How do waves transfer energy?
a disturbance or variation that transfers When energy is transferred by a wave
energy progressively from point to point in from a vibrating source to a distant
a medium receiver, there is no transfer of matter
between the two points.
Type :
• Sound
by vibrating mechanical bodies Example
such as a guitar strings or a
tuning fork
• Light
result of vibrations of electrons in
an atom
• Water
by a disturbance on a still water
surface When the string is shaken up and down, a
disturbance moves along the length of the
string. It is the disturbance that moves
along the length of the string, not parts of
the string itself.
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