Question

When the wire of a sonometer is plucked what is the nature of the waves produced in airvand string?

Answer 1

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As a guitar string vibrates, it sets surrounding air molecules into vibrational motion. air molecules vibrates with a frequency which is equal to the frequency of vibration of the guitar string.due to this sound waves are produced.Sound wave can travels like a longitudinal wave in air and sound wave in the solid body can travel like transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.