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Subject:
wavelenth
Category: Science > Physics Asked by: daisy001-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
27 Feb 2005 18:52 PST
Expires: 29 Mar 2005 18:52 PST Question ID: 482060 |
Radio waves travel at the speed of light-300,000km/s. What is the wavelength of radio waves received at 100.1 MHz on you FM radio dial? |
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Re: wavelenth
From: guzzi-ga on 27 Feb 2005 20:15 PST |
If 300 km/s, 2.997... metres. Speed isn?t exactly 300,000 km/s of course, 299,792,458 m/s being commonly accepted. Therefore, 2.9949... metres. May be superfluous information for your requirements, but any modulated wave consists of other frequencies as well so the 100.1 MHz is only the mid frequency. Best |
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Re: wavelenth
From: pkuanko-ga on 27 Feb 2005 22:17 PST |
Use this formula v = fL where v = velocity of wave, f = frequency of wave and L = wavelength of wave. Using your data, 300 000 000 m/s = 100.1 x 1 000 000 Hz x L L = 2.997 m |
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Re: wavelenth
From: spetty-ga on 11 Mar 2005 17:01 PST |
Well, technically the speed 299,792,458 m/s is speed of light in a vacuum. In the atmosphere of earth the index of refraction is 1.0029 which means that the actual speed for a radio wave in our atmosphere is (approximately) v= 298,925,573.84 m/s. The wavelength would be (using pkuanko's formula) L=v/f = (298, 925, 573.84 m/s)/(100.1 x 1,000,000 Hz) = 2.98627 m not much of a difference from the above calculations, but I wanted to make sure to distiguish between a vacuum (out in empty space) and the Earth's atmosphere (air). |
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