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Transcribed Image Text:A traveling wave on a string has an amplitude of 0 m and the string element at x =0 and t = 0 has a displacement of 35.2 % of the amplitude and is moving upward.
What is the phase constant of the system if the wave is modeled by the equation;
y(x, t) = A sin(kx-wt+phi) ?
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