A telephone lineman is told to stretch the wire between two poles and estimate the tension in the wire. As the lineman does not have a scale to measure forces, he decides to measure the frequency of a standing wave on the wire when he shakes it. He shakes the wire so that an m = 3 (third harmonic) standing wave is set up on the wire, with a frequency of 1.6 Hz. The distance between the poles is 59 m, and the mass of 59 m of wire is 13 kg. What is the tension in the wire?

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A telephone lineman is told to stretch the wire between two poles and estimate the tension in the
wire. As the lineman does not have a scale to measure forces, he decides to measure the
frequency of a standing wave on the wire when he shakes it. He shakes the wire so that an m =
(third harmonic) standing wave is set up on the wire, with a frequency of 1.6 Hz. The distance
between the poles is 59 m, and the mass of 59 m of wire is 13 kg. What is the tension in the wire?
Transcribed Image Text:Written Problem: A telephone lineman is told to stretch the wire between two poles and estimate the tension in the wire. As the lineman does not have a scale to measure forces, he decides to measure the frequency of a standing wave on the wire when he shakes it. He shakes the wire so that an m = (third harmonic) standing wave is set up on the wire, with a frequency of 1.6 Hz. The distance between the poles is 59 m, and the mass of 59 m of wire is 13 kg. What is the tension in the wire?
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