Scouts at a camp shake the rope bridge they have just crossed and observe the wave crests
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Scouts at a camp shake the rope bridge they have just crossed and observe the wave crests to be 8.00 m apart. If they shake the bridge twice per second, what is the propagation speed of the waves?
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