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1. You hold one end of the clothesline taut and wiggles it up and down sinusoidally with frequency 2.00 Hz and amplitude 0.075 m. The wave speed on the clothesline is v = 12.0 m/s. At t = 0, the end has maximum positive displacement and is instantaneously at rest. Assume that no wave bounces back from the far end. Find the
a. Angular frequency
b. period T,
c. wave number k.
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