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the distance between two consecutive compressions or rarefactions of a light wave is called its wavelength.
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What units is wavelength measured in usually?
Answer - meters or derivations of meters e.g micrometers, nanometers etc
Is wavelength measured in hertz or meters?
Usually, no. The wavelength of visible light is usually measured in nanometers. Only larger forms of electromagnetic radiation, like radio waves, are measured in meters.
What is the unit used to measure radiant energy?
Radiant energy does not exist in quantum units because radiant energy has no wavelength
What is the wavelength in nm of a photon whose energy is 4.7 x 10-14 J?
First get the wavelength in meters by multiplying Plancks constant (in units of J-sec) times the speed of light (in m/sec) and divided by the energy. Then change to nanometers by multiplying by 1 billion.
What does each unit represent?
The definition of unit is that it DOESN'T represent anything. For example: two units of water could be two teaspoons or two gallons. The only thing unit-units are used for is comparing.
Distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next?
That is the same as the wavelength, or the definition of a wavelength.
What property is expressed in distance units?
Wavelength (Apex)
What is the units for wave number?
Wavenumber is inversely proportional to wavelength, so has units m^-1
What are the metric units for wavelength frequency?
Wavelength is a length. Hence, the metric unit for it is "meter". Frequency is a reciprocal of time. Hence, the unit for it is "per second", named "Hertz".
What of a sound wave is the distance between a compression or rarefaction and the next compression or rarefaction?
It is equal to wavelength.
What is the definition of English system?
the answer is it is the definition of the system of units between metric units and compound system of economy
What is the simplest definition of Equivalent Units?
in completed units converted into completed units
What is a unit of measuring wavelength of light?
The SI unit is meter. But nanometer and angstrom are commonly used units to measure the wavelength of light.
What is the speed of a wave with a wavelength of cm and a frequency of KHz?
The speed of a wave is equal to the product of wavelength x frequency. Just convert everything to standard units (wavelength to meters, frequency to hertz), multiply both, and you'll get the result, also in standard units (meters / second).
What units is wavelength measured in usually?
Answer - meters or derivations of meters e.g micrometers, nanometers etc
What is unit of electromagnetic spectrum?
electromagnetic spectrum can be interpreted in the units of frequency i.e. hertz or in the units of wavelength i.e nm
How many cycles are there in one wavelangth?
A wavelength by definition is the amplitude of motion over one cycle
