Physics

The Free High School Science Texts: A Textbook for High School Students Studying Physics.

FHSST Authors

August 5, 2005

ISBN 0-00-888878-9

The rights holder of the source material for this exemplar has stated the following:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

See http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst

Contents

• 2 Waves and Wavelike Motion  11
• 2.1 What are waves?  11
• 2.1.1 Characteristics of Waves: Amplitude  11
• 2.1.2 Characteristics of Waves: Wavelength  12
• 2.1.3 Characteristics of Waves: Period  12
• 2.1.4 Characteristics of Waves: Frequency  13
• 2.1.5 Characteristics of Waves: Speed  13
• 8 Work and Energy  140
• 8.3 Types of Energy  144
• Appendix A: Biographical Index  A1
• Appendix B: Resources  B1