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A 4.0 kg block is suspended from the ceiling of an elevator through a string having a linear mass desity of `19.2xx10^-3 kgm^-1`. Find the speed (with respect to the string) with which a wave pulse can proceed on the string if the elavator accelerates up at the rate of `2.0ms^-2. Take g=10 ms^-2`.

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