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The wavelength is the distance from one peak (or trough) of the wave to the next peak (or trough). The amplitude is the distance from the mean value to the top of the peak (or the bottom of the trough). Alternatively, the amplitude is one half of the distance between the height of peak to the depth of the trough.
How you measure these depends on the nature of the waves.
Rhett Strosin
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The measure of a photon's energy?
wavelength
What measure the distance from one trough to the next trough of a wave?
Wave length..
What dose wavelenght measure?
Distance from one crest to the next crest of a wave.
Three characteristics of a wave that you can measure?
wavelength, amplitude, and frequency
How do you measure wavelength on a transverse wave?
1 wavelength in a transverse wave is equal too the distance between crest and crest or trough and trough
How measure the sun temperature?
Use a spectrometer to measure the wavelength of the light. There is a direct, but inverse correlation of the wavelength to the temperature.
The measure of a photon's energy?
wavelength
How do you measure the wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum?
You measure the energy E and divide it into hc. Wavelength w = hc/E = 0.2E-24/Energy.
How do you measure the speed of the wave?
To measure the speed of a wave, you multiply the frequency by the wavelength.
What dose wavelenght measure?
Distance from one crest to the next crest of a wave.
What measure the distance from one trough to the next trough of a wave?
Wave length..
How do you measure wavelength from a diagram?
divide something by something
What is nanometers measure in?
The wavelength of light (400-700).
What does nm in calculation of ultraviolet rays mean?
nm = nanometers It is a measure of the wavelength of the light, with energy inversely proportional to the wavelength: E = h / wavelength
Do wavelength measure from the top of one wave to the top of another wave?
Yes. To be precise, the wavelength is the length of one precise cycle, and one way to measure that is from top to top.
How do you measure a transverse wavelength?
From crest to crest or trough to trough
Three characteristics of a wave that you can measure?
wavelength, amplitude, and frequency
