Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 7CQ
If you increase the frequency with which you are moving the end of a Slinky back and forth, does the wavelength of the wave on the Slinky increase or decrease? Explain.
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