Thursday, 28 March 2019

Definition of 'Hertz'

The hertz is defined as one cycle per second. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom"[2][3] and then adds: "It follows that the hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770 hertz, ν(hfs Cs) = 9 192 631 770 Hz." The dimension of the unit hertz is 1/time (1/T). Expressed in base SI units it is 1/second (1/s).
In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form.[4] As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 103 Hz), MHz (megahertz, 106 Hz), GHz (gigahertz, 109 Hz) and THz (terahertz, 1012 Hz). One hertz simply means "one cycle per second" (typically that which is being counted is a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred cycles per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz, or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz. The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s−1) in general or, in the specific case of radioactive decay, in becquerels.[5] Whereas 1 Hz is 1 cycle per second, 1 Bq is 1 aperiodic radionuclide event per second.

헤르츠 (hertz, 기호: 문화어: 헤르쯔)는 SI 단위계의 주파수 단위이다. 이 이름은 전자기학 분야에서 업적을 남긴 독일 물리학자 하인리히 루돌프 헤르츠(Heinrich Rudolf Hertz)를 기리기 위한 것이다.
는 SI 기본 단위로 표현하면 1 s이다. 1 Hz는 “1초에 한 번”을 의미한다. 즉 100 Hz는 1초에 100번을 반복 혹은 진동함을 뜻한다. 이 단위는 모든 주기적으로 반복되는 것에 쓰일 수 있다. 매우 간단한 예로 정확히 맞는 시계의 초침은 1 Hz로 똑딱거린다.
우리가 일상생활에서 주로 접하는 경우는 라디오나 텔레비전 방송의 주파수, 컴퓨터 CPU의 클럭 주파수 등이다.


Electromagnetic radiation is often described by its frequency—the number of oscillations of the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz.
Radio frequency radiation is usually measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), or gigahertz (GHz). Light is electromagnetic radiation that is even higher in frequency, and has frequencies in the range of tens (infrared) to thousands (ultraviolet) of terahertz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of the highest normally usable radio frequencies and long-wave infrared light) is often called terahertz radiation. Even higher frequencies exist, such as that of gamma rays, which can be measured in exahertz (EHz). (For historical reasons, the frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies.

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