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16.5 Exercise 7

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Consider two sinusoidal sine waves traveling along a string, modeled as y1(x,t)=0.3msin(4m−1x+3s−1t+π3)y_{1} \left(x , t\right) = 0.3 \text{m} \text{sin} \left(4 \text{m}^{−1} x + 3 \text{s}^{−1} t + \frac{\pi}{3}\right) and y2(x,t)=0.6msin(8m−1x−6s−1t).y_{2} \left(x , t\right) = 0.6 \text{m} \text{sin} \left(8 \text{m}^{−1} x - 6 \text{s}^{−1} t\right) . What is the height of the resultant wave formed by the interference of the two waves at the position x=1.0mx = 1.0 \text{m} at time t=3.0s?t = 3.0 \text{s}?

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