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Find the frequency of a tuning fork that takes to complete one oscillation.
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OpenStax College Physics for AP® Courses, Chapter 16, Problem 9 (Problems & Exercises)
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This is College Physics Answers with Shaun Dychko. Frequency is the reciprocal of period, so we're told that the tuning fork takes two and a half milliseconds or two and a half times ten to the minus three seconds to do one oscillation. So one divided by that gives 400 Hertz as the frequency.