Waves in air, fluids and solids exam tips

Exam tips

• Transverse and longitudinal waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to explain why electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Transverse and longitudinal waves.

• Transverse and longitudinal waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to use diagrams to distinguish transverse and longitudinal wave patterns..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Transverse and longitudinal waves.

• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to define amplitude as the maximum displacement of a point on a wave from its undisturbed position..

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• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to define wavelength as the distance from a point on one wave to the equivalent point on the adjacent wave..

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• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to define frequency as the number of waves passing a point each second..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Properties of waves.

• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to state that frequency is measured in hertz..

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• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to define period as the time taken for one complete wave to pass a point..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Properties of waves.

• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to use the relationship period = 1 divided by frequency..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Properties of waves.

• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to calculate period from frequency..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Properties of waves.

• Properties of waves exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to calculate frequency from period..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Properties of waves.