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A typical steel B-string in a guitar resonates at its fundamental frequency at 240 Hertz. The length of the string is 0.620 m. What is the wave velocity along the string? Find your answer in m/s.
What is the formula to solve?
What is the formula to solve?
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Answered by
drwls
Try this one, which you should memorize:
(frequency)*(wavelength) = wave speed
The trick is to know that, for the fundamental frequency, the wavelength is twice the length of the string, because only a half-wave is vibrating.
(frequency)*(wavelength) = wave speed
The trick is to know that, for the fundamental frequency, the wavelength is twice the length of the string, because only a half-wave is vibrating.
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Student in Need
29.75m/s?
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