Gujarati
14.Waves and Sound
easy

Unlike a laboratory sonometer, a stringed instrument is seldom plucked in the middle. Supposing a sitar string is plucked at about $\frac{1}{4}$th of its length from the end. The most prominent harmonic would be

A

Eighth

B

Fourth

C

Third

D

Second

Solution

(d) When plucked at one fourth it gives two loops, and hence $2$nd harmonic is produced.

Standard 11
Physics

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