IB WAVES

A travelling wave is created on a string. The graph below shows the variation with time t of the


displacement y of a particular point on the string.

The variation with distance x of the displacement y of the string at t =0 is shown below.

(a) Use information from the graphs to calculate, for this wave,

(i) the wavelength.

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(ii) the frequency.

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(iii) the speed of the wave.

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