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Letter: Good vibrations

Published 24 January 2004

From Godfrey Dack

In “Mingle bells” you say the fundamental on a stretched string has a wavelength equal to the string’s length (13 December 2003, p 41). In fact, it has a wavelength of twice the string’s length (easy school science question).

Can you tell I am a bored retired further education college lecturer?

Hull, Yorkshire, UK

Issue no. 2431 published 24 January 2004

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