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If you clap on one end of a long steel pipe you will hear two distinct sounds on the other end of the pipe. Explain.

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Velocity of sound is much more in steel than the velocity of sound in air. Hence, the sound travelling through the pipe reaches the other end ,earlier than the sound travelling through the air.
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