Timeline for sending information over a wire--mechanically
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| Apr 10, 2012 at 7:03 | history | edited | Pygmalion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2012 at 6:58 | comment | added | Pygmalion | You've missed my point. Imagine that we stuck with a specific material, let's say steel. Elasticity and voluminous density are fixed for steel, so the longitudinal wave speed is fixed. However, you can make steel wire thinner and put a larger tension to it, so you can actually change transverse wave speed quite easily. This is the principle of musical strings. | |
| Apr 10, 2012 at 4:32 | comment | added | anna v | Both T and lamda depend on the electromagnetic properties of the medium. When the density is small there can be no elasticity , no?. So there must be a limit to the formula, no wire, due to reality. | |
| Apr 9, 2012 at 22:10 | history | edited | Pygmalion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2012 at 20:35 | history | answered | Pygmalion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |