A
transverse wave is set up on a string of mass 2.00 g and length 70.0 cm. The
speed of the wave is 200 m/s. The string was kept under tension by
hanging an object of mass m at the one end of the string. What is the mass
of this object?
Example 1
The mass of the object =
kg
Answer
The linear mass density of the string is
From the speed of the wave
we
can calculate the tension t
From the tension
we can calculate the mass of the hanging object