What are transition frequencies?

Transition frequencies are the speed at which something changes from one state to another, like when a toy car goes from being still to zooming around the room.

Imagine you have a red light and a green light, and every time the red light turns off, the green light turns on. That switch happens really quickly, that quick change is what we call a transition. Now imagine counting how many times those lights switch in one minute. That number is like the transition frequency.

Think of a swing set. When you're swinging back and forth, you’re moving between two positions: high on one side and low on the other. Each time you go from high to low and then back to high again, that’s a full cycle. If you count how many cycles happen in one minute, how fast you're swinging, that number is your transition frequency.

If you’re playing with a friend on the swing set, and they go faster than you, their transition frequency is higher. They change positions more quickly! Just like when a toy car zooms around faster than another one, it has a higher transition frequency too.