Which one of the following statements is true? A dog whistle isn’t loud enough for humans to hear, or the speed of a pulse sent up a rope hanging from the ceiling will decrease as the pulse rises, or a wave hitting a fixed boundary is not inverted upon reflection, or a seismic P-wave can propagate all the way through the earth? Explain

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