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Freq Wavelength Practice (With Answers)

This document provides an answer key with solutions to practice problems involving the relationships between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength. There are 7 problems covering sound waves, waves on guitar strings, radio waves, microwaves, and visible light. The key shows the calculations and conversions needed to determine frequency, wavelength, or other property based on the given information.

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Freq Wavelength Practice (With Answers)

This document provides an answer key with solutions to practice problems involving the relationships between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength. There are 7 problems covering sound waves, waves on guitar strings, radio waves, microwaves, and visible light. The key shows the calculations and conversions needed to determine frequency, wavelength, or other property based on the given information.

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Smith’s Integrated Science Answer Key

Name: ________________________________________
Unit 1: Energy & the Solar System Date: ______________ Period: _______

Wave Speed, Frequency, & Wavelength


Practice Problems
v=f c = 300,000,000m/s
c=f (c = 3x108m/s)

Use the above formulas and information to help you solve the following problems. Show all
work, and use the factor-label method to perform all necessary conversions.

1. Sound waves in air travel at approximately 330m/s. Calculate the frequency of a 2.5m-long sound
wave.

f = 132Hz

2. A wave on a certain guitar string travels at a speed of 200m/s. Calculate the wavelength of an “A”
note sounding at 440Hz.

= 0.45m

3. A low-frequency radio wave has a frequency of 250,000Hz. What is the wavelength of this radio
wave? (Hint: Don’t forget that this is an electromagnetic wave, and therefore you should
automatically know its speed.)

= 1200m

4. A certain microwave has a wavelength of 0.032 meters. Calculate the frequency of this microwave.

f = 9.375x109Hz
5. A certain radio wave has a wavelength of 7 inches.
a. Convert the wavelength of this radio wave into meters. (1 meter = 39.37 inches)

0.178m

b. Find the frequency of this radio wave.

f = 1.69x109Hz

6. A certain wave on the border between microwaves and infrared waves has a frequency of 2x1012 Hz.
a. Calculate the wavelength of this wave in meters.

= 1.5x10-4m

b. Convert the wavelength from part A into millimeters. (1 meter = 1000 millimeters)

0.15mm

7. The wavelengths of visible light range from approximately 400 nanometers to 750 nanometers.
a. Convert the 750nm wavelength of the red light into meters. ( 1 nanometer = 1x10-9 meters)

750x10-9m
(or 7.5x10-7m)
b. Convert the 400nm wavelength of the violet light into meters.

400x10-9m
(or 4.0x10-7m)
c. Now find the frequency of the higher-frequency colored light of parts A and B. (Hint: Before
calculating, give some thought to the relationship between frequency and wavelength. Then you
only need to calculate for the one color that corresponds to the higher frequency.)

f = 7.5x1014Hz

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