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Olexes sound flash cards

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Basilar Membrane

Back (Answer)

a membrane in the cochlea that is in the organ of Corti.

#2
Front (Question)

Sonar

Back (Answer)

a system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the water’s depth by emitting sound pulses and detecting or measuring their return after being reflected.

#3
Front (Question)

Photon

Back (Answer)

a tiny particle of light or electromagnetic radiation

#4
Front (Question)

Intensity

Back (Answer)

intensity is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is an imagined surface that is perpendicular to the direction of the energy.

#5
Front (Question)

Radar

Back (Answer)

an electronic system used to detect,range and velocity

#6
Front (Question)

Light Ray

Back (Answer)

An imaginary line that follows behind in the direction that light travels.

#7
Front (Question)

Virtual image

Back (Answer)

Not the real image you see. It is an apparent path of light rays.

#8
Front (Question)

Real image

Back (Answer)

Opposite of virtual image rays are gathered into a single point or small area.

#9
Front (Question)

Diffuse reflection

Back (Answer)

Where random light is reflected off into many random directions, such as a disco ball.

#10
Front (Question)

Geometrical optics

Back (Answer)

Where light starts to perform like a ray.

#11
Front (Question)

Angle of reflection

Back (Answer)

The way the ought reflects off a smooth surface

#12
Front (Question)

Angle of incidence

Back (Answer)

The way a light Ray strikes a surface

#13
Front (Question)

Law of reflection

Back (Answer)

That the laws of reflection and incidence are the same angles

#14
Front (Question)

Normal

Back (Answer)

Where light hits an object

#15
Front (Question)

Convex mirror

Back (Answer)

Mirrors that cave outwards

#16
Front (Question)

Concave mirrors

Back (Answer)

Mirrors that cave in

#17
Front (Question)

Total internal reflection

Back (Answer)

complete reflection of a ray of light within a medium such as water surrounding the back into the medium.

#18
Front (Question)

Lens

Back (Answer)

Focuses all light into one hole.

#19
Front (Question)

Magnification

Back (Answer)

Duplicating wavelengths to make objects appear larger.

#20
Front (Question)

Prism

Back (Answer)

Used to disperse light

#21
Front (Question)

Dispersion

Back (Answer)

Where light is not appeared the way it really is

#22
Front (Question)

What is a sound wave

Back (Answer)

Sound waves are when an object is vibrating free air around it making noise

#23
Front (Question)

What is pitch

Back (Answer)

The pitch is affected by what the size of a vibrating object is the larger it is the lower the pitch the smaller it is the higher the pitch

#24
Front (Question)

What is infrasound

Back (Answer)

You can hear all infrasound