Frequency & Period Problems

Try to use correct significant figures in all answers.

1. A young girl is on a swing that completes 20.0 cycles in 25 seconds. What are its frequency and period?

2. A clock clicks 88 times in 22 seconds. Calculate the frequency and period of the clock.

3. The time interval between flashes on a strobe light is 1/80th of a second. What is the frequency of these
flashes?

4. A spring vibrates 24, 000 times in 1.0 minutes. What are the frequency and period. [Hint: frequency is
cycles per second.]

Wave Practice Problems

1. A vibrating source with a frequency of 20.0 Hz produces water waves that have a wavelength of 3.0 cm.
Calculate the speed of the waves.

2. What is the period of a wave that travels through a spring at 2.5 m/s and has a wavelength of 1.3 meters?

3. A wave travels at 10.0 m/s. If the wavelength is .10m, what are the frequency and period of the wave?
 4. It takes a water wave 5.2 seconds to travel between two docks that are 19 m apart. An observer notices
that 20. crests pass the first dock in 17 seconds. Find the wavelength of the water waves.

5. A radio station broadcasts its radio signals at 9.26 x 107 Hz. Find the wavelength if the waves travel at
3.00 x 108 m/s.

6. A sound wave produced by a clock 515 m away is heard 1.50 sec later.
a) What is the speed of sound in the air?

b) The sound wave has a frequency of 426 Hz. What is the period?

c) What is the wavelength?

7. A hiker shouts toward a cliff .685 miles away. The returning echo is heard 4.00 s later.
a) What is the speed of sound?

b) If the wavelength is .750 m, what is the frequency?

c) What is the period?