Blowing gently across the top of a soda pop bottle gives you a musical note at a certain fundamental frequency. This is most similar to

A. making a guitar string resonate at its fundamental.
B. a wind chime.
C. an organ pipe.
D. a telephone.


Answer: C

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A. each body exerts an equal and opposite force on the other during the collision. B. the forces act during equal time intervals. C. the law of conservation of momentum for an isolated system is a vector equation. D. of all of the above. E. of only (a) and (b) above.

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