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Q.Define the relation between velocity, wavelength and frequency of wave.

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During one period T, a wave advances a distance equal to exactly one wavelength λ (by the very definition of wavelength as the spatial repeat-distance of the wave pattern). Since velocity is distance covered per unit time, v=λTv=\dfrac{\lambda}{T}. Using the definition of frequency as the reciprocal of the period, n=1Tn=\dfrac{1}{T}, this becomes the single most important relation in wave motion: v=nλv=n\lambda. This relation shows that for waves travelling through a FIXED medium (fixed v), frequency and wavelength are inversely related -- raising one lowers the other -- and that when a wave crosses into a new medium …

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