The upper end of a 4.59-meter-long steel wire fastened to the ceiling, and a 79.0-kg object is suspended from the lower end of the wire. You observe that it takes a transverse pulse 0.0496 second to travel from the bottom to the top of the wire. What is the mass, in kilograms, of the wire?

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The upper end of a 4.59-meter-long steel wire fastened to the ceiling, and a 79.0-kg object is suspended from the lower end of the wire. You observe that it takes a transverse pulse 0.0496 second to travel from the bottom to the top of the wire. What is the mass, in kilograms, of the wire?

 

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