A steel rod 100 cm long is clamped at its middle. The fundamental frequency of longitudinal vibrations of the rod are given to be 2.53 kHz. What is the speed of sound in steel?

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When a rod clamped in the middle it has antinodes (A) at its ends and node (N) at the point of clamping. In fundamental mode, so the length of the rod is
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