The answer should be B - lasts longer.
Answer:
The ratio is 9.95
Solution:
As per the question:
Amplitude, 
Wavelength, 
Now,
To calculate the ratio of the maximum particle speed to the speed of the wave:
For the maximum speed of the particle:
where
= angular speed of the particle
Thus
Now,
The wave speed is given by:
Now,
The ratio is given by:
Acceleration means speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction. The graph doesn't show anything about direction, so we just have to examine it for speeding up or slowing down ... any change of speed.
The y-axis of this graph IS speed. So the height of a point on the line is speed. If the line is going up or down, then speed is changing.
Sections a, c, and d are all going up or down. Section b is the only one where speed is not changing. So we can't be sure about b, because we don't know if the track may be curving ... the graph can't tell us that. But a, c, and d are DEFINITELY showing acceleration.
