IB Physics: Wave Characteristics

IB Physics Topic 4.2.
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Table of Contents
0:00 From oscillations to waves
1:40 Wave Definitions
2:02 PhET Wave Simulation
4:39 Displacement-time and Displacement- position graphs for waves
5:42 Universal Wave Equation
7:30 Examples
10:29 How to change the speed of a wave
15:14 Which quantity to consider first?
16:07 Example
17:07 Transverse and Longitudinal waves

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[hibasid]

Mr Doner, I don't get why the frequency doesn't change when the wavelength changes- Doesn't frequency increase when the wavelength decrease and vice versa? Is it because one of the variable has to stay constant in the formulas?
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[morischacter]

Your first graph should be labeled with units on axis, if it was a time, it would not be a wavelength but period.right?

[abhishubrahmecha]

I don't get why speed remains unaffected intuitively. Say I am shaking my hand real fast, surely the speed at which I am shaking it is faster than when I am shaking it slow up and down?