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What wave has the longer wavelength

What wave has the longer wavelength-example-1

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The wavelength is the distance between one crest/trough to another crest/trough. On the image, it's basically the length between each peak of the wave. You can see that the distance between peaks in wave A are much shorter than the distance between the peaks in wave B.

Thus, wave B has the longer wavelength.

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