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Author: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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Chapter 16, Problem 25P

A uniform rope of mass m and length L hangs from a ceiling. (a) Show that the speed of a transverse wave on the rope is a function of y, the distance from the lower end, and is given by v = g y . (b) Show that the time a transverse wave takes to travel the length of the tope is given by t = 2 L / g .

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