A steel wire in a piano has a length of 0.520 m and a mass of 4.600 x 10 kg. To what tension must this wire be stretched so that the fundamental vibration corresponds to middle C (f. = 261.6 Hz on the chromatic musical scale)? N Need Help? Read It

A steel wire in a piano has a length of 0.520 m and a mass of 4.600 x 10 kg. To what tension must this wire be stretched so that the fundamental vibration corresponds to middle C (f. = 261.6 Hz on the chromatic musical scale)? N Need Help? Read It

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Chapter16: Waves

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