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A steel wire has a length of 12.0m and a mass of 2.10kg. What should be the tension in the wire so that speed of a transverse wave on the wire equals the speed of sound in dry air at `20^(@)C= 343ms^(-1)`

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`2.06 xx 10^(4)N`
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