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Transcribed Image Text:Consider the experimental setup shown below. The length of the string between the string vibrator
and the pulley is L = 1.00m. The linear density of the string is μ = 0.0046 kg/m. The string vibrator can
oscillate at any frequency. The hanging mass is 5.00 kg.
String
vibrator
ト
dm
με
constant
dx
a) What are the wavelength and frequency of the n = 6 mode?
26=
m
Frictionless
pulley
Hanging
mass
f6-
Hz
b) The oscillation of the string oscillates the air with the same frequency. What is the wavelength of
the sound produced if the speed of sound is 343 m/s?
λ =
S
✓ m
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