Episode 24: Vibrations and Waves
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Wavelength, the Frequency and the Speed of the Waves
The wavelength refers to the distance over which the wave repeats, or the distance traveled by the wave in a single period. The frequency is the number of oscillations per unit of time that occur,. So they're directly related to each other, wavelength of frequency. And finally, speed is just defined as distance over time, as hopefully you should know. That's just the definition of speed or velocity.
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