Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Do you think that time needs a definition? But whether the time taken for waves having same wavelength but different frequencies be the same not considering time-period.
The one with biggest speed, then, will arrive earliest, anywhere. I'll make the answer clearer. Show 4 more comments. The inverse question is how many repetitions cycles are there per second? Alfred Centauri Alfred Centauri Hritik Narayan Hritik Narayan 6, 3 3 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Is frequency related to the number of occurrences or the rate of change. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. The velocity of a wave in a given medium air, water, etc is fixed and is related to the physical characteristics temperature, density, etc.
Frequency and wavelength, therefore, are inversely proportional to each other, i. Moreover, this relation holds for any kind of wave phenomenon. The animation below shows two acoustic longitudinal waves with two different frequencies but travelling with the same velocity.
Re: Relationship between frequency and wavelength Post by KaylaH » Fri Oct 02, pm When there is a higher frequency of waves passing by, the wave lengths decrease. When there is a lower frequency of waves passing by, the wavelengths increase Light only has one speed, the speed of light, it doesn't change, it's a constant. Therefore, you can interpret this as they travel the same distance over the same time.
If the wavelength is longer, less cycles of a wave will pass through a given distance over a given time. In other words, if you have a longer wavelength compared to a shorter one, less of it will "fit" in the interval of time. Since frequency is defined as the number of cycles per second, a higher frequency means more waves pass through in one second, so the wavelength must be shorter to fit more number of waves in that period of time.
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