Chapter 12: Q43P (page 328)
Question: (III) When a player鈥檚 finger presses a guitar string down onto a fret, the length of the vibrating portion of the string is shortened, thereby increasing the string鈥檚 fundamental frequency (see Fig. 12鈥36). The string鈥檚 tension and mass per unit length remain unchanged. If the unfingered length of the string is l= 75.0 cm, determine the positions x of the first six frets, if each fret raises the pitch of the fundamental by one musical note compared to the neighboring fret. On the equally tempered chromatic scale, the ratio of frequencies of neighboring notes is 21/12.

Figure 12-36
Short Answer
The positions x of the first six frets are \(4.3\;{\rm{cm}}\), \(8.3\;{\rm{cm}}\), \(12.1\;{\rm{cm}}\), \(15.7\;{\rm{cm}}\), \(19.1\;{\rm{cm}}\) and \(52.7\;{\rm{cm}}\).