Caroline, a piano tuner, suspects that a piano's G4 key is out of tune. Normally, she would play the key along with her G4 tuning fork and tune the piano to match, but her G4 tuning fork is missing! Instead, she plays the errant key along with her F4 tuning fork (which has a frequency of 349.2 Hz), displays the resulting waveform on a handheld oscilloscope, and measures a beat frequency of 76.7 Hz. Then, she plays the errant key along with her A4 tuning fork (which has a frequency of 440.0 Hz) and measures a beat frequency of 14.1 Hz. What frequency is being played by the out-of-tune key ?
a. 363.3 Hz
b. 451.1 Hz
c. 33.9 Hz
d. 272.5 Hz
e. 425.9 Hz

a.) travels faster in solids because the particles are closer together.

air is a gas water is a liquid

speed of light in vacuum is 300,000 km/s

speed of light in other mediums is given by the expression v = c/n, where c is the speed of light in vacuum and n is the refractive index of medium.

for the first medium v = 200,000 km/s

  so, refractive index of medium = 300000/200000 = 1.5

    1.5 refractive index is usually for glass. so first medium is glass.

for the second medium v = 250,00 km/s

so, refractive index of medium = 300000/250000 = 1.2

    1.2 refractive index is usually for water. so second medium is water.

for the third medium v = 0 km/s

so, refractive index of medium = 300000/0 = ∞

    ∞ refractive index is usually for opaque mediums. so third medium is opaque medium.