A heavy ball of mass 
is suspended from the ceiling of a car by a light string of mass 
( 
. When the car is at rest the speed of transverse waves in the string is 
. When the car has acceleration 
, the wave speed increases to 
. The value of 
, in terms of gravitational acceleration 
, is closest to
A
B
C
D
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C
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