Solution

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Write the oscillation period as , so locally . The first overtone is the lowest curve above the fundamental, not the fundamental mode itself. Near , Figure 1 gives approximately . Representative nearby readings are about at and at . Thus
The local group-velocity estimate is
These are graphical estimates, roughly and , rather than high-precision fitted constants. The nearby straight-line approximation need not describe that mode over the whole plotted period range. No source curve is reproduced here.

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