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Problem 1
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tone.What is the smallestfrequencythat will producedestructiveinterferenceat point C?
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(a) A cello string hasa fundamentalfrequencyof 65.40Hz. What beatfrequencyis heard
whenthii cello string is bowedat the sametime asa violin string with frequencyof 196.0IIz?
(Hint: Thebeatsoccurbetweenthe third harmonicof the cello string andthe fundamentalof
the violin.)
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Thewire is 0.330m longandhasa massof 9.60g. It is fixed at both endsandoscillates
in its firndamentalmode. By resonance,it setsthe air column in the tube into oscillation
at the tubesfundamentalflequency.Find that frequencyandthe tensionin the wire.
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