In a Kundt's dust tube experiment a bras...

In a Kundt's dust tube experiment a brass rod was found to resonate with 10 cm of a sonometre wire stretched by 6 kg. One hundred centimetre of the wire was found to weight 653 mg. This rod produced nodal heaps 12 cm apart in air. Calculate the velocity of sound in air.

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`360 ms^(-1)`

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