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Posted by Brenda on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 1:52pm.

A grasshopper floating in water generates waves at a rate of three per second with a wavelength of two centimeters. (a) What is the period of these waves in seconds? (b) What is the wave velocity in m/s?

science - Damon, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 2:25pm
T = 1/f = 1/3 second

distance = rate * time
.02 = c * 1/3

c = .06 m/s

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