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A steel wire has length of 12.0m and a mass of 2.10kg. What is the tension in the wire if speed of a transverse wave on the wire is `343ms^-1`?

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Linear density m = mass/length = 2.10/12 = `0.175kgm^-1`
v = `sqrtT/m`, 343 = `sqrtT/(0.175)` = `T = 2.06xx10^4N`
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