Wavenumber Wavenumber In the physical sciences, the wavenumber (also wave number or repetency) is the spatial frequency of a wave, measured in cycles per unit distance or radians per unit distance. Whereas temporal frequency can be thought of as the number of waves per unit time, wavenumber is the number of waves per unit distance. In multidimensional systems, the wavenumber is the magnitude of the wave vector. The space of wave vectors is called reciprocal space. Wave numbers and wave vectors play an essential role in optics and the physics of wave scattering, such as X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and elementary
Per-unit system use the nominal voltage 138 kV as the base voltage formula_23. We then have: If, for example, the actual voltage at one of the buses is measured to be 136 kV, we have: The following tabulation of per-unit system formulas is adapted from Beeman's "Industrial Power Systems Handbook". It can be shown that voltages, currents, and impedances in a per-unit system will have the same values whether they are referred to primary or secondary of a transformer. For instance, for voltage, we can prove that the per unit voltages of two sides of the transformer, side 1 and side 2,