GCSE Physics – Time period of waves

Last updated: 12/05/2020
AQA GCSE Science – Combined science higher Waves GCSE Physics – Time period of waves

Learning Objectives

-I can recall the units needed for T = 1 / f
-I can rearrange T = 1 / f
-I can use T = 1 / f

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  1. What is the frequency of a wave?

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  2. What is the time period of a wave?

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  3. How are period and frequency related?

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  4. What is the formula for the period of a wave?

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  5. Rearrange the time period equation for frequency.

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  6. What is T in the time period equation?

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  7. What is f in the time period equation?

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  8. What are the units for frequency?

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  9. What are the units for time period?

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  10. What must the value of the time period be?

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  11. Why must a time period value be bigger than 0?

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  12. What could you times frequency by to get a value of 1?

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  13. If the frequency of a wave is 10 Hz, what is its time period?

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  14. If the frequency of a wave is 20 Hz, what is its time period?

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  15. If the frequency of a wave is 12 Hz, what is its time period?

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  16. If the frequency of a wave is 400 Hz, what is its time period?

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  17. If the frequency of a wave is 50 Hz, what is its time period?

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  18. If the frequency of a wave is 1 Hz, what is its time period?

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  19. If the frequency of a wave is 0.4 Hz, what is its time period?

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  20. If the time period of a wave is 4 ms, what is its frequency?

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  21. If the time period of a wave is 0.0005 s, what is its frequency?

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  22. If the time period of a wave is 0.4 s, what is its frequency?

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  23. If the time period of a wave is 1 s, what is its frequency?

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  24. If the time period of a wave is 0.02 s, what is its frequency?

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  25. If the time period of a wave is 0.01 ms, what is its frequency?

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