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Chapter 10: Waves
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Finding Period and Frequency

You can measure the period from the history graph: it is the time between two successive crests, troughs, or other matching parts on the wave. Alternatively, you can count the number of cycles N that occur during a certain time t, and then T=t/N.

If you are given a snapshot graph and the wavespeed, you can measure the wavelength from the snapshot graph, and then use the formula v=λT.