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A source makes 75 vibrations in 3 s. Find its frequency and its time period.

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A source makes $75$ vibrations in $3\ \text{s}$ . Find its frequency and its time period.

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Frequency $f$ (waves each second, in $\text{Hz}$ ), time period $T = \dfrac{1}{f}$ , wavelength $\lambda$ (compression to compression), and $v = f\lambda$ . The medium sets $v$ ; the source sets $f$ .

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