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Going back over the derivation of the wave equation, it is not hard
to show from Newton's second law that the wave equation is replaced by
d^2y/dt^2 = gx*d^2y/dx^2 + g*dy/dx
for small displacements in the transverse direction y.
If the last term were not present, we would indeed say the wave speed
is sqrt(gx).