A tall cell-phone tower is 12 cm in diameter over much of the height. A wind blows at 25 m/s. The frequency of the vortices being shed from the tower is nearest:

(A) 44 Hz
(B) 33 Hz
(C) 22 Hz
(D) 0 Hz


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