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A hertz is a unit that measures how often something repeats per second—for example, a sound wave vibrating 440 times per second has a frequency of 440 hertz. It matters because it's the standard way scientists and engineers worldwide describe the speed of any recurring event, from the pitch of musical notes to the signals in wireless networks.
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- Unit.name
- hertz
- Unit.image
- FrequencyAnimation.gif
- Unit.caption
- Top to bottom: Lights flashing at frequencies , and ; that is, at 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 flashes per second, respectively. The time between each flash – the period T – is given by (the reciprocal of f); that is, 2, 1 and 0.5 seconds, respectively.
- Unit.standard
- SI
- Unit.quantity
- frequency
- Unit.symbol
- Hz
- Unit.dimension
- T−1
- Unit.namedafter
- Heinrich Hertz
- Unit.extralabel
- In SI base units
- Unit.extradata
- s−1
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Heinrich Hertz
- Image
- FrequencyAnimationSymetric.gif
- Said to be same as
- cycle per second
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- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
- wd:Q39369 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- derived from base unit
- second
- unit symbol
- Hz
- measured physical quantity
- frequency
- conversion to SI unit
- 1
- Unicode character
- ㎐
- Commons category
- Hertz
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