Question

What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency of light?

Answer 1

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The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. Because all light waves move through a vacuum at the same speed, the number of wave crests passing by a given point in one second depends on the wavelength.
What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?
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Answer 2

Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional. If you increase the distance between troughs or peaks of a wave, you will decrease the frequency with which each trough or peak passes a fixed point. It's easier to think about if you look at an image, like this one: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/class... or this one: http://www.cofc.edu/~martine/111LectWeek...

You can also relate them mathematically by using the speed of light in a vacuum, 3.00 x 10^8 m/s. The wavelength multiplied by the frequency equals the speed of light in a vacuum. You can rearrange this equation to find the value of one of the other variables.

Period is the inverse of frequency, or 1/frequency.
Source:
Ebbing & Gammon, General Chemistry 8/e
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Answer 3

v : velocity of propagation of wave
f : frequency of wave
lamda : wavelength of wave
T : period of wave

v = f * lamda
T = 1/f
v =(1/T)*lamda
Hence, T=lamda/v