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A rope of total mass m and length L is suspended vertically. Analysis shows that for short transverse pulses, the waves above a short distance from the free end of the rope can be represented to a good approximation by the linear wave equation discussed in Section 16.5. Show that a transverse pulse travels the length of the rope in a time interval that is given approximately by
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