A ski gondola is connected to the top of a hill by a steel cable of length

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A ski gondola is connected to the top of a hill by a steel cable of length 620 m and diameter 1.5cm. As the gondola comes to the end of its run, it bumps into the terminal and sends a wave pulse along the cable. It is observed that it took 16 s for the pulse to return.
(a) What is the speed of the pulse?
(b) What is the tension in the cable?
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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