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A heavy ball is suspended from the ceilling of a motor can through a light strig. A transverse pulse travels at a speed of `50 cm//s` on the strin when the car is at rest and `52 cm//s` when the car accelerates on a horizontal road. Then acceleration of the car is : (Take `g = 10 m//s^(2)`.)

A

`2.7 m//s^(2)`

B

`3.7 m//s^(2)`

C

`2.4 m//s^(2)`

D

`4.1 m//s^(2)`

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