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A steel wire has a length of 12 m and a mass of 2.10 kg. What will be the speed of a transverse wave on this wire when a tension of 2.06 × 104 N is applied?

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    Payal Gupta | Contributor-Level 10

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

    Given that length of wire l=12m

    Mass of the wire m=2.10kg

    T= 2.06 × 10 4 N

    Speed of transverse wave v= T μ = 2.06 × 10 4 2.1 / 12 = 2.06 × 12 × 10 4 2.1 = 343 m / s

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