EBK CONCEPTUAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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Chapter 11, Problem 38TAS
Electrons on a radio broadcasting tower are forced to oscillate up and down an antenna 535,000 times each second. Show that the wavelength of the radio waves that are produced is 561 m.
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