Glossary · term
Frequency
Waves & Fluids
- Aliases
- hertz, Hz
- Domain
- Waves & Fluids
Definition
How many cycles pass a point per second, in hertz. Middle A is 440; visible light is around 5 × 10¹⁴; the energy of a photon is this times Planck's constant.
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