A steel wire has a length of 12.0 m and a mass of 2.10 kg. What should be the tension in the wire so that speed of a transverse wave on the wire equals the speed of sound in dry air at 20 degrees C=343ms^−1

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2023-01-25

A steel wire has a length of 12.0 m and a mass of 2.10 kg. What should be the tension in the wire so that speed of a transverse wave on the wire equals the speed of sound in dry air at 20 degrees C=343ms^−1

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Mass per unit length, μ = m l = 2.10 12 = 0.175 k g m 1
v = T μ T = v 2 μ = ( 343 ) 2 × 0.175 = 20588.575 2.06 × 10 4 N

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