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Describe a pulse traveling along a string of linear mass density μ as a wave function, y(x), if the power carried by this wave at a point x is described as P(x):
P (x) = (μ ω3 / k) e πx
(a) What is the wave function y(x)?
(b) What is the total energy in one wavelength of the wave?
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