Factor
(
Hz
)
|
Multiple
|
Value
|
Item
|
10
?18
|
1 attohertz (aHz)
|
~2.2978 aHz
|
The
Hubble constant
(once in 13.8 billion years)
|
10
?17
|
10 aHz
|
~79 aHz
|
Supercontinent cycle
(about every 400 million years)
|
10
?16
|
100 aHz
|
~137.8 aHz
|
Once per
galactic year
(about every 230 million years)
|
10
?15
|
1 femtohertz (fHz)
|
~3 fHz
|
Sound waves created by a
supermassive black hole
in the
Perseus cluster
[1]
|
10
?14
|
10 fHz
|
~31.71 fHz
|
Once every one million years
|
10
?12
|
1 picohertz (pHz)
|
1.23 pHz
|
Precession of the Earth's axis
(about every 25,700 years)
|
10
?11
|
10 pHz
|
~31.71 pHz
|
Once per millennium
|
10
?10
|
100 pHz
|
~317.1 pHz
|
Once per century
|
10
?9
|
1 nanohertz (nHz)
|
~1 nHz
|
Once per generation (about every 30 years)
|
~2.9 nHz
|
Average
solar cycle
(about every 11 years)
|
~3.171 nHz
|
Once per decade
|
10
?8
|
10 nHz
|
11.6699016 nHz
|
Once in a blue moon
[2]
|
~31.71 nHz
|
Yearly (or
Earth's orbital frequency
)
|
10
?7
|
100 nHz
|
~380.5 nHz
|
Monthly (or
the Moon's orbital frequency
)
|
~413 nHz
|
Average
menstrual cycle
(28 days)
|
10
?6
|
1 microhertz (μHz)
|
~1.653 μHz
|
Weekly
|
10
?5
|
10 μHz
|
~11.57 μHz
|
Daily (or
Earth's rotation frequency
)
|
10
?4
|
100 μHz
|
~277.8 μHz
|
Hourly
|
10
?2
|
1 centihertz (cHz)
|
~16.667 mHz
|
One
rpm
|
10
?1
|
1 decihertz (dHz)
|
189 mHz
|
Acoustic – frequency of G
?7
, the lowest note sung by the singer with the deepest voice in the world,
Tim Storms
. His vocal cords vibrate 1 time every 5.29 seconds.
|
10
0
|
1 hertz (Hz)
|
1 to 1.66 Hz
|
Approximate frequency of an adult human's resting
heart beat
|
1 Hz
|
60
bpm
, common
tempo
in music
|
2 Hz
|
120
bpm
, common
tempo
in music
|
~7.83 Hz
|
Fundamental frequency
of the
Schumann resonances
|
10
1
|
10 hertz
|
10 Hz
|
Cyclic rate of a typical automobile engine at idle (equivalent to 600
rpm
)
|
12 Hz
|
Acoustic – the lowest possible frequency that a human can hear
[3]
|
18 Hz
|
Average house cat's purr
|
24 Hz
|
Common
frame rate
of movies
|
27.5 Hz
|
Acoustic – the lowest musical note (
A
0
) playable on a normally-tuned standard piano
|
50 Hz
|
Electromagnetic
– standard
AC
mains
power
(European AC, Tokyo AC),
refresh rate of
PAL
and
SECAM
CRT
televisions
|
60 Hz
|
Electromagnetic
– standard
AC
mains
power
(American AC, Osaka AC),
refresh rate of
NTSC
CRT televisions and standard refresh rate of
computer monitors
|
10
2
|
100 Hz
|
100 Hz
|
Cyclic rate of a typical automobile engine at
redline
(equivalent to 6000
rpm
)
|
261.626 Hz
|
Acoustic – the musical note
middle C
(C
4
)
|
440 Hz
|
Acoustic –
concert pitch
(
A
above middle C; A
4
), used for tuning musical instruments
|
716 Hz
|
Rotational period of one of the fastest known
millisecond pulsars
,
PSR J1748?2446ad
[4]
|
10
3
|
1 kilohertz (kHz)
|
1 kHz
|
Usual frequency of a
bleep censor
|
4.186 kHz
|
Acoustic – the highest musical note (
C
8
) playable on a normally-tuned standard piano
|
8 kHz
|
ISDN
sampling rate
|
10
4
|
10 kHz
|
14 kHz
|
Acoustic – the typical upper limit of adult human hearing
|
17.4 kHz
|
Acoustic – a frequency known as
the Mosquito
, which is generally only audible to those under the age of 24.
|
25.1 kHz
|
Acoustic – G
10
, the highest pitch sung by
Georgia Brown
, who has a
vocal range
of 8 octaves.
|
44.1 kHz
|
Common audio sampling frequency
|
10
5
|
100 kHz
|
740 kHz
|
The
clock speed
of the world's first commercial
microprocessor
, the
Intel 4004
(1971)
|
10
6
|
1 megahertz (MHz)
|
530 kHz to 1.710 MHz
|
Electromagnetic –
AM radio
broadcasts
|
1 MHz to 8 MHz
|
Clock speeds of early
home
/
personal computers
(mid-1970s to mid-1980s)
|
10
7
|
10 MHz
|
13.56 MHz
|
Electromagnetic –
near field communication
|
10
8
|
100 MHz
|
88 MHz to 108 MHz
|
Electromagnetic –
FM radio
broadcasts
|
902 to 928 MHz
|
Electromagnetic
– common
cordless telephone
frequency in the US
|
10
9
|
1 gigahertz (GHz)
|
1.42 GHz
|
Electromagnetic
– the
hyperfine
transition of hydrogen, also known as the
hydrogen line
or 21 cm line
|
2.4 GHz
|
Electromagnetic
–
microwave ovens
,
wireless LANs
and cordless phones (starting in 1998)
|
2.6?3.8 GHz
|
A common desktop
CPU
speed as of 2014
|
5.8 GHz
|
Electromagnetic
–
cordless telephone
frequency introduced in 2003
|
10
10
|
10 GHz
|
3 GHz to 30 GHz
|
Electromagnetic
–
super high frequency
|
60 GHz
|
Electromagnetic –
60 GHz Wi-Fi (WiGig)
introduced in 2010
|
10
11
|
100 GHz
|
160.2 GHz
|
Electromagnetic
– peak of
cosmic microwave background radiation
|
845 GHz
|
Fastest
transistor
(December 2006).
[5]
[6]
|
10
12
|
1 terahertz (THz)
|
|
The
terahertz gap
|
10
13
|
10 THz
|
21 THz to 33 THz
|
Electromagnetic
–
infrared
light used in
thermal imaging
, for example for
night vision
|
31.5 THz
|
Electromagnetic
– peak of
black-body radiation emitted by human body
|
10
14
|
100 THz
|
400 THz to 790 THz
|
Electromagnetic –
visible light
, from
red
to
violet
|
10
15
|
1 petahertz (PHz)
|
2.47 PHz
|
Electromagnetic
–
Lyman-alpha line
|
10
16
|
10 PHz
|
30 PHz
|
Electromagnetic
–
X-rays
|
10
17
|
100 PHz
|
|
|
10
18
|
1 exahertz (EHz)
|
|
|
10
19
|
10 EHz
|
|
|
10
20
|
100 EHz
|
300 EHz +
|
Electromagnetic
–
gamma rays
|
10
21
|
1 zettahertz (ZHz)
|
36 ZHz
|
Resonance width
of the
rho meson
|
10
24
|
1 yottahertz (YHz)
|
|
|
10
27
|
1 ronnahertz (RHz)
|
3.9 RHz
|
Highest energy (16 TeV)
gamma ray
detected, from
Markarian 501
|
10
30
|
1 quettahertz (QHz)
|
|
|
10
43
|
10 trillion QHz
|
18.5 trillion Qhz
|
The unit of inverse time (or frequency) in the system of
Planck units
|