You shake the end of a taut string, creating two periods of a traveling sinusoidal wave, as shown in Figure P16.20. The string you are shaking (string 1) is connected to a second, much more massive, string (string 2 ). The wave speeds on the two strings differ by a factor of 2 .

(a) On the template, sketch the shape of the two strings a time interval \(4 T\) after the instant represented in Figure P16.20, with \(T\) the period of the original wave on string 1 . Briefly explain how you determined the shape of the strings.

(b) How do the periods of the waves on string 1 and string 2 compare?

Data from P16.20

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