The bulk of earths atmospheric oxygen comes from phytoplankton, small flower like things in the ocean.
Because it's literally impossible to tell exactly where something that size is
located at any particular time.
And that's NOT because it's so small that we can't see it. It's because any
material object behaves as if it's made of waves, and the smaller the object is,
the more the size of its waves get to be like the same size as the object.
When you get down to things the size of subatomic particles, it doesn't make
sense any more to try and talk about where the particle actually "is", and we only
talk about the waves that define it, and how the waves all combine to become a
cloud of <em><u>probability</u></em> of where the particle is.
I know it sounds weird. But that's the way it is. Sorry.
It might make more sense putting it another way but this is basically it. you just take the minutes and divide them by 60 to convert them to hours. then simplify the ratio
The frequency of any wave is (speed) / (wavelength).
Frequency = (330 m/s) / (2m) = 165 per second = <em>165 Hz</em>.
Period = 1 / frequency = 1 / (165 per second) = <em>0.0061 second </em>
