How to derive Mersenne's fundamental frequency formula?

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Mars Yeung
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I'm talking about equation 22,

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Does anyone know how to derive this? It's Marin Mersenne's formula for fundamental frequency, but I'm perplexed as to how he derived it.

L would be the length, F would be force, and μ would be mass per unit length.
f is the frequency

Thanks
 
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