Saturday, February 11, 2006

frequency - definition

Definition: the number of cycles of a periodic motion in a unit of time.

All periodic phenomena have a frequency (or possibly many frequencies for complicated time variation) associated with them. Period phenomena include sound, light, oscillating masses on springs and pendula.

The SI unit of frequency is called hertz (Hz). One hertz corresponds to one cycle (or full oscillation) per second.

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