Asked by Josh

A student reading his physics book on a lake dock notices that the distance between two incoming wave crests is about 0.65 m, and he then measures the time of arrival between the crests to be 1.8 s. What is the approximate speed of the waves?
Answered by bobpursley
frequency*wavelength= wavlength/period=speed
solve for speed.
Answered by Josh
So would that just be .65/1.8 and the answer is 0.36?
Answered by Caronia
wave crest/time interval=speed
(.65m)/(1.6s)=0.36m/s
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