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Preliminary note: People (including physicists) often describe light and other EM radiation by its wavelength. It's important to note that this is meant to refer to its wavelength in a vacuum. Because the speed of light is lower in any other medium (i.e., in any kind of "stuff") the wavelength is reduced. This effect in miniscule in air, but quite substantial in other things like glass or water. It is frequency that remains fixed as light goes from one medium to another, not wavelength. So, the answer below is to the question "What is the frequency of green light with a vacuum wavelength of 532nm?"

Electromagnetic frequency, f, is equal to the speed of light, c, divided by wavelength, l, or f = c/l.

In this case, f = (299,792,458 m/s)/(532 nm) = 564 THz, or 564 X 1012 Hz, or 564 X 1012 s-1, where m is meters, s is seconds, nm is nanometers = 10-9 m, Hz is Hertz = s-1, and THz is terahertz = 1012 Hz.

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