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A wave on a rope has a wavelength of 1.5 m and a frequency of 4.0 Hz…

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A wave on a rope has a wavelength of $1.5$ m and a frequency of $4.0$ Hz. Find its wave number, its angular frequency and its speed.

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A travelling wave is $y = A\sin(kx - \omega t)$ with $k = 2\pi/\lambda$ and $\omega = 2\pi f$ . Its speed is $v = f\lambda = \omega/k$ . A crest is where $kx - \omega t = \dfrac{\pi}{2}$ , so it moves at the speed $v$ . x[np.argmax(y)] finds the first crest in code.

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