Aheavy rope with a uniform mass density, mu, is fixed to a support in a ceiling and allowed to hang vertically. if you grab hold of the hanging end of the rope and shake it back and forth, you can set up a wave pulse that will travel up the rope. what happens to the speed of the wave pulse as it travels up the heavy rope?

Daughter element the new element produced along with a decay particle in a nuclear transmutation 2. half-life the substance that decays in a nuclear transmutation 3. parent element the change of one chemical element into another by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment 4. transmutation the time required for the decay of one-half of the atoms in a sample of radioactive material