WorksheetsWave Equations Practice
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 23mins
On your night vision goggles you see a band of red light. Your goggles detect that the frequency of this light is 3.76x1014 hz. What is the wavelength of this wave in nanometers?
548 nm
630 nm
657 nm
798 nm
NASA scientists and astronomers measure some gamma radiation inbound from outer space with a wavelength of 6.90 x 10-13 m.
What is the frequency of this wave?
4.35 x 1020 hz
4.35 x 1019 hz
2.67 x 10-7 hz
3.99 x 1011 hz
You broke your toe! The X-ray the doctor takes uses waves that have a wavelength of 2.19 x 10-10 m.
What is the speed of the wave?
1 x 109 m/s
3.00 x 108 m/s
1.55 x 10-7 m/s
7.36 x 10-36 m/s
Broken toe still! The X-ray the doctor takes uses waves that have a wavelength of 2.19 x 10-10 m.
What is the wavelength in nm?
2.19 x 10-19 nm
2.19 x 10-9
0.219 nm
219 nm
A sound scientist hears some thunder. She knows that sound moves as a wave. She has a microphone that measures the frequency of the thunder as 100 hz. She also predicts the wavelength of sound to be about 3.40 m. Based on these data, determine the speed of sound.
0.34 m/s
30 m/s
340 m/s
3.40 x 106 m/s
A laser shoots out of a battleship. The frequency of the light is 5.71 x 1014 hz. Determine the wavelength of the light in nanometers and predict the color of the light.
If blue light has a wavelength of about 475 nm, calculate the amount of energy present in one photon of blue light.
6.23 x 10-29 J
4.18 x 10-19 J
2.87 x 10-6 J
6.75 x 1028 J
What is the wavelength in nanometers of a wave of light that has 7.65 x 10-17 J of energy to it?
2.60 nm
260 nm
3.97 x 105 nm
3.97 x 109 nm
How much energy is there in a radio wave with a wavelength of 9,330 cm?
2.13 x 10-27 J
6.07 x 10-19 J
3.11 x 10-9 J
5.13 x 103 J
