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Every 6 seconds a pendulum completes one cycle. 

What are the period and frequency of this pendulum?

User Kjaquier
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The period is 2.4 seconds and the frequency is I believe 1/6 I'm not entirely sure since I don't think this question has enough information.
User James Bruce
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The period is the time it takes any repeating process
to complete one cycle. You just told us what it is for the
pendulum . . . 6 seconds.

The frequency is the reciprocal of the period. For the pendulum,
that's

1 / (6 sec) = (1/6) per second = 1/6 Hertz .

User Taranmeet Singh
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