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What is the distance between a compression and its adjacent rarefaction in a wave with wavelength 'L'?
AL
BL/2
CL/4
D2L
✓ Correct Answer: B — L/2
One full wavelength is the distance from one compression to the next compression. Therefore, the distance to the adjacent rarefaction is half a wavelength.
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