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magician13134
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Hi, I'm completely stuck on a homework question and I really don't even know where to start...
A guitar string is vibrating in its fundamental mode, with nodes at each end. The length of the segment of the string that is free to vibrate is 0.382 m. The maximum transverse acceleration of a point at the middle of the segment is 9000 m/s2 and the maximum transverse velocity is 3.90 m/s.
Part (a) asked "What is the amplitude of this standing wave?" and I was able to correctly get A=1.69×10−3m
Now part (b) is asking "What is the wave speed for the transverse traveling waves on this string?" and I don't even know what equations to use. If someone could just point me in the right direction, tell me a useful equation, or give me a little hint, that would be great :)
A guitar string is vibrating in its fundamental mode, with nodes at each end. The length of the segment of the string that is free to vibrate is 0.382 m. The maximum transverse acceleration of a point at the middle of the segment is 9000 m/s2 and the maximum transverse velocity is 3.90 m/s.
Part (a) asked "What is the amplitude of this standing wave?" and I was able to correctly get A=1.69×10−3m
Now part (b) is asking "What is the wave speed for the transverse traveling waves on this string?" and I don't even know what equations to use. If someone could just point me in the right direction, tell me a useful equation, or give me a little hint, that would be great :)