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  2. Frequency - Wikipedia

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    A pendulum with a period of 2.8 s and a frequency of 0.36 Hz. For cyclical phenomena such as oscillations, waves, or for examples of simple harmonic motion, the term frequency is defined as the number of cycles or repetitions per unit of time.

  3. Oscillation - Wikipedia

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    Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum and alternating current. Oscillations can be used in physics to approximate complex interactions, such ...

  4. Cycle per second - Wikipedia

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    The term comes from repetitive phenomena such as sound waves having a frequency measurable as a number of oscillations, or cycles, per second. [1] With the organization of the International System of Units in 1960, the cycle per second was officially replaced by the hertz, or reciprocal second, "s −1" or "1/s".

  5. Sound - Wikipedia

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    (b) Auditory sensation evoked by the oscillation described in (a)." [2] Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can also be viewed as an excitation of the hearing mechanism that results in the perception of sound. In this case, sound is a sensation.

  6. Audio frequency - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] In air at atmospheric pressure, these represent sound waves with wavelengths of 17 metres (56 ft) to 1.7 centimetres (0.67 in). Frequencies below 20 Hz are generally felt rather than heard, assuming the amplitude of the vibration is great enough.

  7. Orders of magnitude (frequency) - Wikipedia

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    Once per galactic year (about every 230 million years) 10 −15: 1 femtohertz (fHz) ~3 fHz: Sound waves created by a supermassive black hole in the Perseus cluster [1] 10 −14: 10 fHz ~31.71 fHz: Once every one million years 10 −12: 1 picohertz (pHz) 1.23 pHz Precession of the Earth's axis (about every 25,700 years) 10 −11: 10 pHz ~31.71 ...

  8. Sine wave - Wikipedia

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    , angular frequency, the rate of change of the function argument in units of radians per second., ordinary frequency, the number of oscillations that occur each second of time., phase, specifies (in radians) where in its cycle the oscillation is at t = 0.

  9. Beat (acoustics) - Wikipedia

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    The sound appears to pulsate only when heard through both earphones. Time duration of 10 seconds Binaural Beats Base tone 200 Hz, beat frequency from 7 Hz to 12.9 Hz. Time duration of 9 minutes.