Relationship between wavelength and frequency

[Daniela Santana 2L]

If the frequency of a wave increases by a certain amount, does the wavelength of that same wave decrease by the same amount?

If not what happens?
How does the wavelength and frequency relate to each other?

[Sydney Lam_2I]

Hi!

So yes, wavelength and frequency are indirectly proportional. This means if wavelength is increased by a factor of two, frequency will decrease by a factor of two and vise versa. You can also visualize this when looking at the wave graph. If you compress the wavelength, you can see that the frequency will increase and vise versa. Hope this helps!

[IsaacLaw1E]

Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional to each other, so if one goes up, the other goes down by a certain ratio. They are related with the equation . The product of the two will always equal c.
This means that , and .
So if you increase one by a certain amount, the other will decrease, but not by the same amount. It's by a proportional amount, such that the new wavelength and frequency will multiply together to equal c.

[Sandy Lin 1L]

The relationship between wavelength and frequency is that they are inversely proportional so it is not necessarily the same amount. You can observe this from the equation speed of light = wavelength times frequency. If one increases, the other one will decrease.

[Brianna Chen 3F]

Wavelength and frequency are inversely related to each other because multiplying wavelength and frequency equals to a constant (the speed of light). Therefore, they will always multiply to 3.00x10^8. The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. Likewise, the lower the frequency, the longer the wavelength.

[Andre Fabian 1F]

Yes! This is true. Wavelengths and frequencies are inversely proportional to one another, as indicated by the following equation: c = (lambda) v. Since c, the speed of light, is a constant at 3.00 x 10^8 m/s, then it can be derived that if the wavelength of a photon increases, the frequency of the same photon decreases.

An example of this would be if the wavelength of a photon increases by a factor three, then the frequency of the photon would decrease by a factor of three.


Hope this helps!
Andre Fabian

[DPatel_2L]

They have an inversely proportional relationship, so as one increases the other one decreases.

[Jonathan Malau 1F]

Yes, if the frequency of a wave increases by a certain amount, the wavelength of that same wave decreases by the same amount. Wavelength and frequency have - as others already mentioned - an inversely proportional relationship. This is depicted within the equation c=λv.

[Justin Zhang_1A]

Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional, since they should always equal the speed of light when you multiply them together, so if one increases, then the other should decrease.

[Arnav Saud 2C]

Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional which means that they increase/decrease with one another at the same rate.

[Yolanda_Xing_3A]

Wavelength and frequency are inverse proportional meaning that if one of them decrease by a certain factor the other will increase. Here, it is not necessarily amount. You may also understand it from the formula c = wavelength x frequency.