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A steel wire of length 64 cm weighs 5 g. If it is stretched by a force of 8 N, what would be the speed of a transverse wave passing on it ?

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32 m/s
`v = sqrt((I)/(mu)) = sqrt((l)/(m))`
`= sqrt((8 xx 0.64))/(5 xx 10^(-3))` = 32 m/s
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