quantitykind:Wavenumber

PredicateObject
rdf:type qudt:QuantityKind
dcterms:description "Wavenumber" is the spatial frequency of a wave - the number of waves that exist over a specified distance. More formally, it is the reciprocal of the wavelength. It is also the magnitude of the wave vector. Light passing through different media keeps its frequency, but not its wavelength or wavenumber. The unit for wavenumber commonly used in spectroscopy is centimetre to power minus one, PER-CM, rather than metre to power minus one, PER-M.
qudt:applicableUnit
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qudt:hasDimensionVector qkdv:A0E0L-1I0M0H0T0D0
qudt:informativeReference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavenumber
qudt:latexDefinition \(\sigma = \frac{\nu}{c}\), where \(\sigma\) is the wave number, \(\nu\) is the frequency, and \(c\) is the speed of light in the medium. Or: \(k = \frac{2\pi}{\lambda}= \frac{2\pi\upsilon}{\upsilon_p}=\frac{\omega}{\upsilon_p}\), where \(\upsilon\) is the frequency of the wave, \(\lambda\) is the wavelength, \(\omega = 2\pi \upsilon\) is the angular frequency of the wave, and \(\upsilon_p\) is the phase velocity of the wave.
qudt:latexSymbol \(\sigma\)
qudt:plainTextDescription “"Wavenumber" is the spatial frequency of a wave - the number of waves that exist over a specified distance. More formally, it is the reciprocal of the wavelength. It is also the magnitude of the wave vector. Light passing through different media keeps its frequency, but not its wavelength or wavenumber. The unit for wavenumber commonly used in spectroscopy is centimetre to power minus one, PER-CM, rather than metre to power minus one, PER-M.”
qudt:siExactMatch si-quantity:WANU
qudt:wikidataMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q192510
rdfs:comment “Applicable units are those of quantitykind:InverseLength”
rdfs:isDefinedBy http://qudt.org/3.1.10/vocab/quantitykind
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  • “Bilangan gelombang”@ms
  • “Liczba falowa”@pl
  • “Repetenz”@de
  • “Vlnové číslo”@cs
  • “dalga sayısı”@tr
  • “nombre d'onde”@fr
  • “numero d'onda”@it
  • “número de ola”@es
  • “número de onda”@pt
  • “valovno število”@sl
  • “wavenumber”@en
  • “Волновое число”@ru
  • “عدد الموجة”@ar
  • “عدد موج”@fa
  • “波数”@ja
  • “波数”@zh
rdfs:seeAlso quantitykind:AngularWavenumber
skos:altLabel “Wellenzahl”@de
skos:broader quantitykind:InverseLength
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