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"When one person hammers at one end of a metal pipe, ifa listener places his ear at the other end of the pipe, two distinct sounds are heard." Why?.

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Sound travels faster in iron that in air. So there is a difference between the times taken by sound to travel through iron and sir. This is why the observer hears two sounds.
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