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1.) What forms mechanical waves?

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1 1.) What forms mechanical waves?
Unit: Sound and Light Lesson 1: What are Waves? Essential Questions: 1.) What forms mechanical waves? 2.) What are the types of mechanical waves?

2 What forms mechanical waves?
A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy and causes a medium to vibrate.

3 The material through which a wave travels is called a medium
The material through which a wave travels is called a medium. Waves that require a medium to travel through are called mechanical waves.

4 What are the types of mechanical waves?
1.) Transverse Waves (p.7)

5 2.) Longitudinal Waves (p.8)

6 3.) Surface Waves (p.9)


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