A youngster in a boat on a lake watches waves that seem to be an endless succession

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A youngster in a boat on a lake watches waves that seem to be an endless succession of identical crests passing with a half-second interval between each. If every disturbance takes 1.5 s to sweep straight along the length of her 4.5-m-long boat, what are the frequency, period, and wavelength of the waves?

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Optics

ISBN: 978-0133977226

5th edition

Authors: Eugene Hecht

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