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Question
The total number of compressions and rarefactions produced per second in a sound wave is 1000. The frequency of the sound wave is __________.
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Solution
The total number of compressions and rarefactions produced per second in a sound wave is 1000. The frequency of the sound wave is 500 Hz (One compression and rarefaction together makes a cycle of sound wave).
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