A sonometer wire is vibrating in resonance with a tuning fork. Keeping the tension applied same, the length of the wire is doubled. Under what conditions would the tuning fork still be is resonance with the wire?

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This is a short answer type question as classified in NCERT Exemplar

Wire of twice the length vibrates in its second harmonic . thus, if the tuning fork resonates at L, it will resonate at 2L

So the sonometer frequency is

v = n 2 l T m

Now if it vibrates with length L we assume v = v 1

n=n1

v = n 2 L T m

When length is doubled then

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