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Communication: Vocab

EQ: How do waves allow us to communicate?

Vocab dealing with Wave Interactions

  • Resonance
  • Natural Frequency
  • Standing wave
  • Node
  • Anti-node
  • Harmonics
  • Overtones
  • Doppler Effect
  • Red-shift
  • Blue-shift
  • Refraction
  • Angle of Incidence
  • Angle of refraction
  • Critical Angle
  • Index of refraction

Vocab from Fiber Optic Readings

  •  Fiber optics –

  •  Concatenate –

  •  Capacity –

  •  Paradigm shift –

  •  Analog –

  •  Digital –

  •  Orders of magnitude –

  •  Band width –

  • Coherent –

Vocab for refraction

  • Refraction
  • Reflection
  • Angle of incident
  • Angle of refraction
  • Index of refraction
  • Normal
  • Critical Angle
  • Focal Point

Vocab from Reading

  • Medium –

  • Mechanical Wave –

  • Electromagnetic Wave –

  • Transverse wave –

  • Longitudinal/Compressional wave –

  • Crest –

  • Trough -

  • Wavelength –

  • Amplitude –

  • Period-

  • Frequency-

Vocab from EM Spectrum review

  • Electromagnetic Spectrum - 
  • Vacuum -
  • Speed of Light -
  • Transmitter -
  • VHF -
  • UHF -
  • Thermal Imaging