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If the frequency of a given wave increases,what happens to the wavelength?
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If the frequency of a given wave increases,what happens to the wavelength?

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it shortens so that the tips reach faster
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The product of frequency and wavelength is always the
same number . . . the wave's speed.

So if the frequency increases, the wavelength must decrease,
in order for their product not to change.

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