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Homework Statement
A steel rod of length 1.44 m is clamped at a point 1/4 of its length from one end. The ends of the rod are free to vibrate. If the velocity of longitudianl wave in steel is 5000 m/s, find the frequency of the first three allowed harmonics. Make diagrams to show the three standing waves.
Homework Equations
f (frequency = n V/ 2 L
The Attempt at a Solution
All you have to do is plug in the variable. What I would like to know is how my freinds or classmates found the harmonics.
For frequency one they use 2 harmonics
and for F2 they use 6 harmonics
and for F3 they use 10 harmonics.
How did they figure that out.
n = harmonics