The Wave Equation

A wave has frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 10 m. What is the speed of the wave?

• 500 m/s

• 50 m/s

• 5 m/s

• 0.5 m/s

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A wave has frequency of 5 Hz and a speed of 25 m/s. What is the wavelength of the wave?

• 25 m

• 125 m

• 5 m

• 25 m/s

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A wave has wavelength of 10 m and a speed of 340 m/s. What is the frequency of the wave?

• 34 m/s
• 3400 Hz
• 3.4 Hz 
• 34 Hz

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A wave has wavelength of 10 m and a speed of 340 m/s. What is the frequency of the wave?

• 34 m/s
• 3400 Hz
• 3400 m/s
• 34 Hz

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Calculate the wavelength of light that has a frequency of 5.2 x 10¹² Hz. The speed of of light is 3.00 x 10⁸ m/s.

• 5.8 x 10 ^-5 m

• 5.8 x 10 ^-7 m

• 5.19 x 10¹⁴ m

• 1.56 x 10²³ m

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If an AM radio station broadcasts at 9.95 x 10⁵ Hz and its speed is 3 x 10 ⁸ m/s what is the wavelength of this radiation?

• 6.59 x 10^-28 m

• 1.01 x 10^-6 m

• 3.32 x 10^-3 m

• 302 m

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If a wave has a wavelength of 50 m and a frequency of 25 Hz, what is its velocity?

• 2 m/s
• 150 m/s
• 250 m/s
• 1250 m/s

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If this wave completes 10 vibrations in 5 seconds, and you can tell its wavelength from the graph, then what is its speed?

• 5 m/s

• 0.5 m/s

• 1 m/s

• 2 m/s

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If this wave travels at a speed of 4 m/s, and the frequency and period is given in the graph, then how long is the length (wavelength)?

• 0.5 m

• 8 m

• 2 m

• 4 m

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How many cycles are in this wave?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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