Facts about Waves

1. Waves transfer energy without transfering the matter.
2. Transverse wave's particles vibrate perpendicular to the wave direction.
3. Longitudinal wave's particles vibrate parallel to the wave direction.
4. The amplitude of a wave determines its energy.
5. Higher amplitude has greater energy.
6. Damping of wave causes decrease in amplitude & energy.
7. Waves' wavefront is always pependicular to the direction of the waves.
8. Waves undergo all of these phenomena; reflection, refraction, diffraction &
interference.
9. Water,light & electromagnetic waves are transverse waves.
10.Coherent waves have same frequency & in phase.
11.As the frequency of a wave increases its energy increases and its wavelength
decreases.
12.Shorter waves with higher frequencies have shorter periods.


Facts about Light Wave

1. Light is a transverse wave
2. Light slows down, bends toward the normal and has a shorter wavelength when it
enters a higher refractive index(n).
3. Medium with higher refractive index has higher optical density.
At the critical angle a light wave will be refracted to 90 degrees.
Blue light has more energy,a shorter wavelength and a higher frequency than red
light (remember- ROYGBIV).
4. Monochromatic light has one color, frequency & wavelength.

Facts about water waves

1. Water waves moves faster at deeper region. This change in speed causes refraction
of water waves.
2. Water waves has longer wavelength at deeper region.
3. Deeper region is less dense than shallow region.
4. Water waves bended towards normal as it moves from deeper to shallow region.
5. After diffraction, water waves amplitude decrease thus its energy decrease as
well.However its speed, wavelength & frequency remain constant.

Facts about sound waves

1. Sound is a longitudinal waves.
2. Sound is produced through vibration, thus compressing & stretching the
surrounding air molecules.
3. Louder sound has bigger amplitude.
4. Sound with high pitch has higher frequency.
5. The sound that we hear is known as 'audio sound' that has freuency between 20-20
khz.
6. Those sound below 20hz is known as infrasound. While sound with frequency beyond
20khz is known as ultrasonic.
7. Sound require medium to travel. It travels fastest in solid> liquid> gas.
Sound can't be heard in vacuum
Therefore..Starwars' sound effect in outer space is a myth :)