WORKSHEET ON FREQUENCY

FREQUENCY OF TIME

1. A swing has a period of 10 seconds. What is its frequency?

2. A pendulum has a period of 0.3 second. What is its frequency?
3. You want to describe the harmonic motion of a swing. You find out that it takes 2
seconds for the swing to complete one cycle. What is the swing’s period and
frequency?
4. An oscillator makes four vibrations in one second. What is its period and frequency?
5. A pendulum takes 0.5 second to complete one cycle. What is the pendulum’s period and
frequency?
6. A pendulum takes 10 seconds to swing through 2 complete cycles.
7. A young girl is on a swing that completes 20.0 cycles in 25 seconds. What are its
frequency and period?
8. A clock clicks 88 times in 22 seconds. Calculate the frequency and period of the clock.
9. The time interval between flashes on a strobe light is 1/80th of a second. What is the
frequency of these flashes?
10. A spring vibrates 24, 000 times in 1.0 minutes. What are the frequency and period. [Hint:
frequency is cycles per second.

FREQUENCY OF WAVE SPEED & WAVELENGTH

11. A vibrating source with a frequency of 20.0 Hz produces water waves that have a
wavelength of 3.0 cm. Calculate the speed of the waves.
12. What is the period of a wave that travels through a spring at 2.5 m/s and has a
wavelength of 1.3 meters?
13. A wave travels at 10.0 m/s. If the wavelength is .10m, what are the frequency and period
of the wave?
14. A sound wave produced by a clock 515 m away is heard 1.50 sec later. What is the
wavelength of the wave?
15. The speed of sound is 346 m/s. If a sound wave travels at a frequency of 55 Hz, what
would its wavelength be?
16. If the speed of a wave is 150 m/s and its frequency is 2 Hz, what is its wavelength?
17. A sound wave in air has a frequency of 262 Hz and travels at a speed of 330 m/s. What is
the wavelength of this wave?
18. A fisherman notices that one wave passes the bow of his anchored boat every 3 seconds.
He measured the wavelength to be 8.5 meters. How fast are the waves traveling?
19. An ocean wave has a length of 10 meters. A wave passes a fixed location every 2
seconds. What is the speed of the wave?
20. Consider a wave traveling through air with a wavelength (λ) of 1.78 meters and speed (v)
of 540 meters per second.

ANGULAR FREQUENCY

21. Suppose that the time of an oscillating object is 30 seconds. Calculate its angular
frequency.
22. Find the angular frequency of an oscillating mass that is tied to a string of length 2
metres.
23. A mass-spring system is oscillating at 5 Hz. What is the angular frequency of the system?
24. A pendulum is oscillating at a 2 Hz frequency. Calculate the angular frequency of the
pendulum.
25. An object is in SHM. If the frequency of the object is 6 Hz. Determine its angular
frequency.
26. The tire of a bicycle revolves at a frequency of 3 Hz. Calculate the angular frequency of
the tire.
27. A drill bit revolves at a 50 Hz frequency. What is the drill bit's angular frequency?
28. With a frequency of 3.5 Hz, an object is spinning. What is the angular frequency of this
object?
29. The frequency of a particle in SHM is 7.5 Hz. Calculate the angular frequency of the
particle.
30. The number of revolutions made by a rotating object in one second is 20. Calculate the
angular frequency of the system.

B. Analyze the problems below and encircle the letter of the correct answer.
31. What is the definition of period in physics?
a. The number of cycles per second
b. The time taken to complete one full cycle
c. The distance between two wave peaks
d. The height of a wave from equilibrium
32. The unit of frequency is:
a. Meters per second
b. Seconds
c. Hertz (Hz)
d. Joules
33. If a wave completes 400400 cycles in 2020 seconds, what is its frequency?
a. 2020 Hz
b. 80008000 Hz
c. 0.050.05 Hz
d. 380380 Hz
34. What is the relationship between period (T) and frequency (f)?
a. T=f2T=f2
b. T=2fT=2f
c. T=fT=f
d. T=1fT=f1
35. A pendulum swings back and forth 3030 times in one minute. What is its period?
a. 22 seconds
b. 0.50.5 seconds
c. 3030 seconds
d. 6060 seconds
36. Which represents the highest frequency?
a. 0.10.1 Hz
b. 0.0010.001 Hz
c. 11 Hz
d. 0.010.01 Hz
37. If a wave's period is 0.250.25 seconds, what is its frequency?
a. 0.250.25 Hz
b. 44 Hz
c. 22 Hz
d. 0.50.5 Hz
38. What happens to the period when frequency increases?
a. Period increases
b. Period stays the same
c. Period decreases
d. Period becomes negative
39. A musical note has a frequency of 440440 Hz. What is its period?
a. 14404401 seconds
b. 440440 seconds
c. 220220 seconds
d. 880880 seconds
40. Which wave property is measured in seconds?
a. Amplitude
b. Period
c. Wavelength
d. Speed
41. If an object vibrates 55 times in 1010 seconds, its frequency is:
a. 5050 Hz
b. 22 Hz
c. 0.50.5 Hz
d. 55 Hz
42. The period of a wave is 44 seconds. How many complete cycles occur in 1212 seconds?
a. 4848 cycles
b. 33 cycles
c. 88 cycles
d. 1616 cycles
43. Which statement about frequency is TRUE?
a. It must always be greater than 1
b. It can be measured in meters
c. It can be a decimal number
d. It must be a whole number
44. A complete cycle of a periodic motion means:
a. Half of one back-and-forth motion
b. One-fourth of a complete motion
c. Return to the starting position
d. Two complete rotations
45. If frequency doubles, the period will:
a. Double
b. Stay the same
c. Halve
d. Quadruple
46. The period of a wave is 0.10.1 seconds. How many cycles occur in one minute?
a. 66 cycles
b. 600600 cycles
c. 6060 cycles
d. 360360 cycles
47. Which has a longer period?
a. A wave with frequency 22 Hz
b. A wave with frequency 55 Hz
c. A wave with frequency 1010 Hz
d. A wave with frequency 2020 Hz
48. The frequency of a wave is the:
a. Distance between peaks
b. Number of cycles per unit time
c. Height of the wave
d. Width of the wave
49. If an object completes 120120 cycles in 11 minute, what is its frequency in Hz?
a. 120120 Hz
b. 22 Hz
c. 6060 Hz
d. 0.50.5 Hz
50. Which would have the shortest period?
a. 0.250.25 Hz wave
b. 0.50.5 Hz wave
c. 0.10.1 Hz wave
d. 22 Hz wave
51. What instrument is specifically designed to measure electric current?
a. Voltmeter
b. Ammeter
c. Ohmmeter
d. Wattmeter
52. Which device measures electrical resistance in a circuit?
a. Multimeter
b. Galvanometer
c. Frequency meter
d. Ohmmeter
53. What instrument is used to measure electrical potential difference?
a. Oscilloscope
b. Ammeter
c. Voltmeter
d. Wattmeter
54. Which device displays electrical signals changing over time?
a. Oscilloscope
b. Frequency counter
c. Power meter
d. Capacitance meter
55. What instrument measures electrical power consumption?
a. Energy meter
b. Voltmeter
c. Inductance meter
d. Wattmeter
56. Which device measures the frequency of electrical signals?
a. Inductance meter
b. Frequency counter
c. Power factor meter
d. Phase meter

ANSWER KEY
A.
1. 0.1 HZ
2. 3.33 HZ
3. 0.5 HZ
4. 1 HZ
5. 2 HZ
6. 0.1 HZ
7. 0.04 HZ
8. 0.045 HZ
9. 0.0125 OR 55.55 HZ
10. 1 HZ
B.
11. 6.66
12. 1.92
13. 100 HZ
14. 343.33
15. 6.29
16. 75
17. 1.25
18. 0.35
19. 0.2
20. 303.37
C.
21. 47.12
22. 3.14
23. 7.85
24. 3.14
25. 9.42
26. 4.71
27. 78.53
28. 5.49
29. 11.78
30. 31.41