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What is a wavelength? How is it different from frequency?

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A wavelength is the measure from crest to crest or trough to trough. While frequency is the number “spikes” in the wave.
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Step-by-step explanation:

the wavelength of a sinusoidal wave is the spatial period of the wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats, and the inverse of the spatial frequency.

Wavelength measures the distance from one point of a wave to the same point on an adjacent wave, whereas the frequency represents how many waves are produced from the source per second. Wavelengths are measured in nanometers and frequencies are measured in hertz or waves per second

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