Stationary Waves & Vibrating Strings
At poles, a stretched wire of a given length vibrates in unison with a tuning fork. At the equator, for same setting, to produce resonance with same fork, the vibrating length of wire
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Answer: (a)
- is smaller at the equator, so the tension and the wave speed decrease.
- For the same frequency , must decrease along with .
- So the answer is (a) should be decreased.