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Physics 1 Final - Part 4 of 4
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18. Waves & Sound / Velocity of Transverse Waves / Problem 5

A guitar fretboard is about 0.65 m in length. A guitar learner plucks a string (made of bronze) of the guitar at one of its endpoints. This creates a transverse wave in the string that takes 2.6 × 10-3 s to bounce off the other end of the string and reach back at the same endpoint. Given that the diameter of the string is 2.6 × 10-2 cm, calculate the tension in the string.
[Assume that Bronze has a density of 8800 kg/m3.]

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