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Imagine a cork floating on some water and a wave goes by. The cork goes up and down. The number of times it goes up and down in one second is the frequency of the wave. When the cork goes through one cycle the wave will have advanced one wavelength.
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If proton and an electron have the same speed which has the longer de Broglie wavelength?
It is electron since wavelength = h/(mv), and since proton's mass > electron's mass, electron's wavelength is longer.
The distance between two successive peaks on a wave is its?
The distance between successive identical parts of a wave is called the wave length.
How does the wavelength of light compare to frequency of light?
Ultraviolet light occurs just above the range of electromagnetc radiation that is detectable by the human eye and has a shorter wavelength than violet. This means it has a higher frequency since all light waves are presumed to travell at the same speed, whether visible to us or not. To explain this in simple terms, if two trains are travelling at the same speed, and one has short cars and the other has long cars, the one with the short cars will pass by us more cars per minute than the one with the long cars. This is called frequency...the number of times something happens in a given time frame.
Which makes salt solution colorless?
The fact that the solution does not absorb any one wavelength of visible light more than any other such wavelength.
Do lines of a particular element appear at the same wavelength in both emission and absorption line spectra?
Yes.
How many cycles are there in one wavelangth?
A wavelength by definition is the amplitude of motion over one cycle
How far in terms of wave length does a wave travel in one period?
A wave period is the time for one complete cycle; therefore, a period is the same as one wavelength
What is the distance from any one point on one wave to a corresponing point on an adjacent wave?
A wavelength. In a given wave, if we measure the distance from a peak to a peak, or a trough to a trough, or even from the beginning of one "up" or "down" cycle to the beginning of the next "up" or "down" cycle (respectively), we should get the same measurement (the wavelength) for that wave with every measuring event.
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
What is the length of one cycle of oscillation?
In physics the distance is called wavelength. Period is the time it takes for one wavelength of wave to pass through a given point.
What is the distance between one point of a wave to the same point of the next wave?
That is incorrect.The distance of one complete wave cycle (for example, from one wave crest to the next) is called the wave's wavelength.The number of cycles per second is called the frequency.
The space occupied by one cycle of a wave at any given instant is a?
A 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.
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.
The distance between corresponding points on a waves cycle is called its?
Wavelength
How does velocity vary with wavelength if frequency is the same?
Velocity equals frequency times wavelength. If frequency is constant, velocity is proportional to wavelength; one increases at the same rate as the other.
Which transmits more energy if two waves has same amplitude and same speed but differ in wavelength?
The wave with the shorter wavelength will transmit more energy than the one with the longer wavelength if two waves have the same amplitude and same speed but differ in wavelength. The energy transmitted by the shorter wavelength will normally be four times more than the energy transmitted by the longer wavelength.
