A light pointer fixed to one prong of a tuning fork touches a vertical plate. The fork is set vibrating and the plate is allowed to fall freely. If eight oscillations are counted when the plate falls through $10 cm$, the frequency of the tuning fork is .... $Hz$
IIT 1997, Medium
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