Light As A Wave

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Waves have three components as follows:

c = speed of light (3.00E8 m/s or 3.00E8 m*Hz)
f = frequency of light as Hz or 1/s where 1 1/s = 1 Hz
λ, lamda (symbol: backwards h, see in example calculations) is wavelength (m or nm)

The components are related by the following: Equation: c = f * λ

Here is a picture of the two different waves:


So you can see from the picture above, that the frequency and the wavelength are inversely (indirectly) proportional to each other (as one goes up other goes down)



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