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Question 26

An engineer investigates the speed of a vibration pulse along a long metal beam. Two electronic pickups, A and B, are fixed 7.50 m apart. The same data logger records the time at which each pulse reaches the pickups.

TestTime at pickup A in ms\mathrm{ms}msTime at pickup B in ms\mathrm{ms}ms
12.163.64
25.326.83
38.479.98

Calculate the mean speed of the pulse between pickup A and pickup B. Give your answer in m/s\mathrm{m/s}m/s.

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