Wave
The speed of propagation of a wave in a string is proportional to the square root of the tension of the string and inversely proportional to the square root of the linear density of the string:
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“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
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