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An ocean wave has a length of 10.0 meters. A wave passes a fixed location every 2.0 seconds. What is the speed of the wave? Answer this ASAP and if you can answer the second question in the image that’d
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An ocean wave has a length of 10.0 meters. A wave passes a fixed location every 2.0 seconds. What is the speed of the wave?

Answer this ASAP and if you can answer the second question in the image that’d be great.

An ocean wave has a length of 10.0 meters. A wave passes a fixed location every 2.0 seconds-example-1
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Speed of the wave = frequency * lambda. Where lambda is distance in meters But frequency = 1/ T where T is the period in secs. So Speed = lambda/ T T = 2s and lambda = 10m So Speed = 10/ 2 = 5 m/s
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