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Grade 11Wave Motion

how 2 calculate d freq when two different stings are overlapped over each other

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16 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Gokul  Joshi AskiitiansExpert-IITK
16 Years ago

Frequency is not a function of the medium but of the source. When you overlap two different strings, it would affect the velocity and wavelength in the string (which depends on tension and linear mass density) but not the frequency. Frequency shall be same as that of source.