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A harmonic wave of amplitude 10.0 cm passes through a string. The harmonic wave has a...

A harmonic wave of amplitude 10.0 cm passes through a string. The harmonic wave has a frequency of 37.5 Hz. What is the average speed (not velocity!) of a point on the string as the wave is going through the string? Give your answer in units of m/s, to three significant figures.

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Avarage Speed of a point on the string as wave going through string is given by=4Af

Where A=Amplitude of the wave

f=frequency of the wave

The avarage speed of a point in the string for the given question thus 15.000m/s

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