Frequency

Real World Example

Imagine you're trying to find a parking spot in a crowded shopping mall parking lot. Just like how frequently you circle around the lot hoping to snag a spot that opens up, frequency in science refers to how often a cycle or vibration occurs each second, measured in hertz (Hz). In this analogy, each time you complete a loop around the parking lot is like one cycle, and if you circle the lot five times in a minute, that's similar to saying your "parking spot frequency" is five cycles per minute; similarly, frequency measures how many times something happens in a given time frame, with hertz being the unit for cycles per second.