WJEC AS Physics 2420QS · 2.4
The Nature of Waves
- Code
- 2.4
- In
- 2 AS Unit 2: Electricity and Light
- Course
- AS Physics 2420QS
- Board
- WJEC
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Points under 2.4
- 2.4(a) Progressive waves and energy transfer
- 2.4(b) The difference between transverse and longitudinal waves
- 2.4(c) The term polarisation
- 2.4(d) The terms in phase and in antiphase
- 2.4(e) The terms displacement, amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period and velocity of a wave
- 2.4(f) Displacement graphs for transverse waves
- 2.4(g) Wave equation c = fλ
- 2.4(h) Wavefronts, phase and rays