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What can you determine when Given the number of oscillations a wave completes in a period of time?
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If you know what you're doing, and you work carefully, you can
use that information to determine the frequencyof the wave.
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A mass oscillates on the end of a spring with a period of 4.0 seconds. What is the frequency of the oscillator?
This sounds like a homework question, so rather than doing your homework for you, I'll explain how to find the answer for yourself.The period and the frequency are very easy to find from the information provided. First, remember the definitions of period and frequency:Period is the amount of time per oscillation.Frequency is the number of oscillations per unit time.When you see the word "per" in these definitions, you should think division, because that is how you find the answer. When we say period is time per oscillation, this means time divided by oscillations. So your period is obtained by dividing the amount of time (in seconds) by the number of oscillations in that time. The units will make sense this way too: time divided by oscillations will give you a number that means seconds PER oscillation, which is what period is!Similarly, frequency is oscillations per time, so take the number of oscillations and divide it by the number of seconds it took. Your units will be oscillations per second, which makes sense for a measure of frequency.
How do you find time period of pendulum if oscillations and time taken for it is given?
If you know the time, t, taken for N (complete) oscillations then the period, P, is P = t/N
How do you find determine the period of the pendulum A pupil obtains the following values for 20 oscillations of a pendulum 12.6s 12.7s 12.5s 12.6s 12.7s Determine the period of pendulum?
First take the average of your times:(12.6 + 12.7 + 12.5 + 12.6 + 12.7) / 5 = 12.62This is your average time for 20 oscillations. The period is the time for one oscillation, and therefore the period is 12.62/20 = 0.631 seconds.A complete oscillation is when the pendulum swings from the start position to the opposite position on the swing and back again. Assuming this is what you counted twenty of, then your pendulum is 10 cm long.If you counted 20 swings to each side, then you really only counted 10 oscillations. This means that your period would be 1.262, and would suggest that your pendulum is 40cm long.
How did the period of oscillations of the pendulum of a clock may be affected by an increase in temperature?
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How are the period and the frequency of a wave reletated?
The period of a wave is defined as the time taken by a wave to complete one oscillation. While, the frequency of a wave is defined as the number of oscillations completed by a wave in one second.
An object that completes 100 vibrations in 5 seconds has a period of?
It completes 20 vibrations per second, the the period is 1/20 of a second.
What is the length of time between breaking waves?
whether you are talking about waves on the beach or waves of light or sound waves. the time it takes for one wave to oscillate completely is the period of the wave. if, however you would like to know how many oscillations each wave completes per second, then you would be looking for frequencys
What is the meaning frequency of sound?
freq is reciprocal if time period... f= 1/timeperiod H.. in 1 unit of time number of oscillations made is defined as frequency...
To determine the energy level of the f-orbital in a particular period one should?
subtract one from the period number
When the earth completes one rotation the time period is a?
Day
Why it is imp to record 10 oscillations in a pendulum?
I assume you want to get the pendulum's period. If you record a greater amount of oscillations, you will reduce the error - since if you manually measure time, you are likely to get an error of a few tenths of a second.
What is the length of time between breaking waves called?
whether you are talking about waves on the beach or waves of light or sound waves. the time it takes for one wave to oscillate completely is the period of the wave. if, however you would like to know how many oscillations each wave completes per second, then you would be looking for frequencys
