The transmitted and incident waves have the same angular frequency and tension, but the transmitted wavenumber is twice as large. The time-average string-power formula therefore gives
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The extra factor is essential. Squaring the displacement transmission coefficient alone would give , which is not the transmitted power fraction in strings with different linear mass densities.

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