A transverse wave traveling on a Slinky® that is stretched to a total length of 2.5 m takes 3.5 s to travel the length of the Slinky and back again. Part (a) What is the speed of the wave in units of meters per second? Part (b) Using the same slinky stretched to the same length, a standing wave is created which exhibits of three antinodes and four nodes. At what frequency, in hertz, must the Slinky be oscillating? Part (c) Since a Slinky can have traveling transverse waves on it, we can define a tension in it as if it were a string. If the total mass of this Slinky is 280 g, what is the "effective tension" in units of new
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A transverse wave traveling on a Slinky® that is stretched to a total length of 2.5 m takes 3.5 s to travel the length of the Slinky and back again.
Part (a) What is the speed of the wave in units of meters per second?
Part (b) Using the same slinky stretched to the same length, a standing wave is created which exhibits of three antinodes and four nodes. At what frequency, in hertz, must the Slinky be oscillating?
Part (c) Since a Slinky can have traveling transverse waves on it, we can define a tension in it as if it were a string. If the total mass of this Slinky is 280 g, what is the "effective tension" in units of newtons?
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