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Textbook Solutions for Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics

Chapter 15 Problem 12DQ

Question

The four strings on a violin have different thicknesses, but are all under approximately the same tension. Do waves travel faster on the thick strings or the thin strings? Why? How does the fundamental vibration frequency compare for the thick versus the thin strings?

Solution

Solution 12DQ

Step 1:

The speed on a string,that is speed of propagation of wave on string is

 

Where F is density and  is linear density

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

Solved: The four strings on a violin have different

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