Can you have half a frequency as in 445.5 Hz?

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anonymous · Answer

yea why not??

if three waves are crossing past a point in 2 seconds what happens to the frequency?
frequency is no. of waves crossing a point per second..

so frequency would be 3waves/2 seconds = 1.5 waves/second= 1.5Hz

whpalmer4 · Answer

Yes, of course.  Why would the universe know anything about the length of a second?

anonymous · Answer

yea thats one more way to think of it.. 1 second was our definition of time.. ;-)..

whpalmer4 · Answer

Doppler effect might be another illustration of continuously variable frequencies

anonymous · Answer

yea thats just deviating from the topic :P

anonymous · Answer

it would mean 891 complete cycles in 2 seconds

anonymous · Answer

Okay that makes sense. Thank you all so much!