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Wavelength= 10 mm. Frequency= 5.0 hertz. Speed= 50 mm/second (wavelength x frequency)
Speed (of a wave) = frequency x wavelengthTherefore, you have to: * Convert the wavelength to meters. * Divide the speed of light - which is 300 million meters/second - by this wavelength. The answer will be in Hz.
Frequency = speed / wavelength = 3 x 108/0.001 = 300 GHz . (rounded)Most folks would call that a "millimeter wave" or a "darnedshort microwave", not light. It's certainly not visible.
If only there were an equation that related the speed of EM waves, wavelength, and frequency... c=(wavelength)(frequency) Make sure and keep your units straight.
Assuming you are reffering to electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light, the formula for this is simply frequency*wavelength = speed (in this case a constant, the speed of light). Then, frequency = (speed of light) / wavelength, speed of light ~= 3 * 10^8 meters / second, and wavelength = 9.3 mm = 9.3 * 10^-3 m. Therefore frequency ~= (3 * 10^8) / (9.3 * 10^-3) = 27.9 * 10^5 Hz = 2.79 MHz, where 1 Hz = 1 / seconds.
Wavelength= 10 mm. Frequency= 5.0 hertz. Speed= 50 mm/second (wavelength x frequency)
Speed (of a wave) = frequency x wavelengthTherefore, you have to: * Convert the wavelength to meters. * Divide the speed of light - which is 300 million meters/second - by this wavelength. The answer will be in Hz.
The answer depends on the units in which the speed of light is given as 3.00
Frequency = speed / wavelength = 3 x 108/0.001 = 300 GHz . (rounded)Most folks would call that a "millimeter wave" or a "darnedshort microwave", not light. It's certainly not visible.
If only there were an equation that related the speed of EM waves, wavelength, and frequency... c=(wavelength)(frequency) Make sure and keep your units straight.
The wavelength is greater than 300E6/300E9 = 1 mm and the frequency is less than about 300 Gigacycles.
60 mm/s
The speed of a wave is equal to the product of its wavelength and its frequency. (If you want to have the speed in meters/second, convert the wavelength to meters first.)
Electromagnetic wavelength = speed/frequency = 3 x 108/6 x 1010 = 5 mm
Assuming you are reffering to electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light, the formula for this is simply frequency*wavelength = speed (in this case a constant, the speed of light). Then, frequency = (speed of light) / wavelength, speed of light ~= 3 * 10^8 meters / second, and wavelength = 9.3 mm = 9.3 * 10^-3 m. Therefore frequency ~= (3 * 10^8) / (9.3 * 10^-3) = 27.9 * 10^5 Hz = 2.79 MHz, where 1 Hz = 1 / seconds.
Frequency of electromagnetic radiation = (speed of light) / (wavelength) Speed of light in vacuum = 300,000,000 meters/sec (rounded) Frequency = (300,000,000 meters/sec) / (5 x 10-6 cm) = (3 x 108 m/s) / (5 x 10-8 m) = 0.6 x 1016 = 6 x 1015 Hz.
Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of microwaves. Infrared radiation has wavelengths between about 750 nm and 1 mm. To convert wavelength to frequency, divide the speed of light by the wavelength. Speed of light is 300000000 m/s so 1mm corresponds to a frequency of 3E11 or 300GHz 750nm corresponds to a frequency of 4E14 or 400THz if I didn't drop a decimal point somewhere.