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Stretch a string across the room send a pulse down. If a bug were attached to the string, how would we best characterize the velocity the bug experiences? Is this the same velocity as the wave we started? 

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University Physics with Modern Physics
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00:01 Hi everyone, so the question is saying that a certain case measure the speed of sound in a monoatomic gas to be this meter per second.
00:09 That means the speed of the gas that is given to us 4 .49 meter per second at 20 degrees celsius.
00:18 So what is the molar mass of that gas and what is the element of this gas? we have to find out which element consists of the gas there.
00:27 So first of four to do this, first of cold to do this, first of the gas.
00:29 The speed of sound of an ideal gas is equal to gamma r t divided by m and under the root of this stuff.
00:48 Okay, where gamma is adliatic constant, rh muscle gas constant, t, temperature and hence the molar mass of the gas...
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