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What is the frequency of a beam of light traveling through a vacuum with a wavelength of 5 x 104m? The speed of light in a vacuum is 3.00 × 108 m/s.
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What is the frequency of a beam of light traveling through a

vacuum with a wavelength of 5 x 104m? The speed of light in a
vacuum is 3.00 × 108 m/s.

User Apdm
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the answer I got was 6000Hz

User Guilherme Sehn
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The answer is 6000Hz
Explanation
To find frequency we use formula
Frequency=speed of light/wavelength
So f=3x10^8/5x10^4
f=6000Hz
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