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frequency
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Context
Harmonic analysis
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Idea
Frequency is a number of occurences of a periodic event in time.
For waves: number of wave crests at a given space point per time.
Definition
For and the Cartesian space regarded as Minkowski spacetime, then the frequency of a plane wave
with respect to the chosen coordinate system is the 0-component of the given wave vector :
The combination
is called the angular frequency.
plane waves on Minkowski spacetime
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