A plucked guitar string produces a sound wave of frequency 440 Hz

(a) What is the wavelength of the sound wave (assume the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s)? (b) How much time elapses between the impacts of two adjacent compressions on your eardrum?


(a) 0.77 m (b) 2.3 × 10-3 s

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