GCSE Physics

Frequency

This is less well understood, but is easy if you look at the word. Frequency means how frequent.

In other words, how often something happens. In physics, we normally expect frequency to be how many times something happens per second.

For a wave, frequency means: how many waves per second.

[ Related topic: sound frequency ]


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