An interesting method to remove brain tumor involves using an ultrasonic surgical aspirator, which  produces sound waves with frequency 23k Hz. (a) What is the wavelength of this sound in air? When this  device is used on tissue the medium the sound travels in is no longer in air, but instead is bodily tissue and  fluids, where the speed of sound is roughly 1480 m/s, what is the wavelength of the sound in this medium

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 An interesting method to remove brain tumor involves using an ultrasonic surgical aspirator, which 
produces sound waves with frequency 23k Hz. (a) What is the wavelength of this sound in air? When this 
device is used on tissue the medium the sound travels in is no longer in air, but instead is bodily tissue and 
fluids, where the speed of sound is roughly 1480 m/s, what is the wavelength of the sound in this medium 
(frequency is unchanged).

 

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Frequency in air, F= 23 k Hz 

Speed of sound in medium ,V2= 1480 m/s 

Wavelength of sound in medium, W2 =???

Wavelength in air,W1 =?? 

Speed of sound in air, V1 = 344 m/s

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