Where is the frequency located on a wave?

Question

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Answer 1

the frequency is the whole wave

frequency is a count of the number of waves per unit time

for example, if you have the wave that you display in your question, and it takes 2 seconds to propagate that wave, if there are 20 repeats of the wave, the frequency would be 10 hertz. that means that there are 10 repeats per second

Answer 2

The answer is in the term. "Frequency" or "How frequent does this happen?"

So grab an arbitrary point in Y on the wave - lets say we'll grab a point at 0 while the wave is rising.

Now follow to the right of the wave until you arrive at the same point again - 0, where the wave is rising.

The amount of TIME [y] tells you how often this wave makes one cycle, or it's frequency.

Let's say for ease, this was .016 seconds, or 16 milliseconds. So in 16 milliseconds, the wave made one complete cycle.

That means that in each second, the wave happens 62.5 times, so the frequency is 62.5 hertz.

Answer 3

Frequency and Period of a Wave

The nature of a wave was discussed in Lesson 1 of this unit. In that lesson, it was mentioned that a wave is created in a slinky by the periodic and repeating vibration of the first coil of the slinky. This vibration creates a disturbance which moves through the slinky and transports energy from the first coil to the last coil. A single back-and-forth vibration of the first coil of a slinky introduces a pulse into the medium. But the act of continually vibrating the first coil with a back-and-forth motion in periodic fashion introduces a wave into the slinky.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/class/waves/u10l2b.html

Answer 4

I think you have an incorrect interpertation of frequency. You have to think of it as a property of the wave itself, not a place on the wave. Frequency tells you how many waves per second pass by a certian point in space. So if we watched your wave move in space, we may wish to count how many up peaks we see pass by that point in a second.

Answer 5

The frequency is (1/ the time it takes to get from one wave crest to the other) measured in Hertz, Hz.

Answer 6

Frequency is the number of complete cycles per unit time. So if you typed those ^^^ in one second, then the frequency is ..... 19 hertz (meaning 19 cycles per second). If you typed those in 2 seconds, then the frequency is 9.5 hertz.