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Chapter 17: Q7. (page 482)

In music, two notes are said to be an octave apart when one note is exactly twice the frequency of the other. Suppose you have a guitar string playing frequency f0. To increase the frequency by an octave, to 2f0, by what factor would you have to (a) increase the tension or (b) decrease the length?

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a) 4 times

b) 2 times

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01

Given information

Frequency of guitar string is being doubled by keeping everything constant except for a) Tension, b) length.

02

Relation of frequency of a string to tension and length.

f=12LTs渭

03

Part a): Dependency on Tension

We can see frequency is directly proportional to square root of tension. So in order to increase frequency by 2 times we have to increase the tension in the string by 4 times.

04

Part b): Dependency on Length

We can see frequency is inversely proportional to the length of string, so to increase the frequency by 2 times, length has to be decrease by 2 times (or halved).

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