GNIS feature ID. Sky Valley is a town in Rabun County, Georgia, United States and is nestled in a scenic mountain valley on the northwest slopes of Rabun Bald, Georgia's second-highest peak. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 250.
We've got a measure of distance from the wavelength of the wave, and we've got a measure of time from the frequency. Wavelength is meters per cycle. Frequency is cycles per second. So, multiplying the two gives us meters per second.
up vote 11 down vote. A cycle generally refers to a clock cycle (a single tick of the internal clock.) Cycles per second are also called Hertz, or Hz, thus a 2 GHz CPU (two gigahertz) goes through 2,000,000,000 cycles every second.