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EXERCISE 13
(a) Sound waves travel through air at Earth's surface with a speed of about 350 m/s. The pitch produced by "Middle C" on a piano has frequency of just under 250 cycles per second. What is the wavelength of Middle C? (b) Visible light has a wavelength of about 550 nanometers (1 m = 10^9 nm). What is the frequency of a wavelength of visible light? If light travels in waves, why don't we see light moving through the sky in waves the way water waves travel through a pond? |