frequency: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: University of Notre Dame - Frequency Distributions. | Oct 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Natural frequency. | Feb 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - College Physics 2e - Sound. | Jul 05, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbook - Understanding Sound - Frequency and pitch: How do we know? | Jan 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at USU - Frequency Analyses and Probable Storage Requirements by Frequency Mass Curve Methods. | Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time and Frequency Division - Fundamentals of Time and Frequency. | Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - The Grainger College of Engineering - Pitch vs. Frequency:. | Aug 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Frequency Distributions. | May 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics Classroom - Frequency and Period of a Wave. | Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: History-Computer - What is Frequency in Physics? | May 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Frequency. | Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Changed “wave number” to “wavenumber, the number of waves in a unit of distance.” | Mar 29, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | May 21, 2020 | ||
| Added material about omega being used as the symbol for angular frequency. | Mar 28, 2017 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Physics Classroom - Pitch and Frequency. | Jan 17, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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