Oscillations questions
1188 published questions with worked solutions.
- A stone is swinging in a horizontal circle 1 m in diameter at 60 rev/min. A distant light causes a shadow of the stone to be...
- Two pendulums of time period 3 and 7 respectively start oscillating simultaneously from two extreme positions. After how much...
- A weightless spring of length 60 cm and force constant 200 N/m is kept straight and unstretched on a smooth horizontal table and...
- A particle performs S.H.M. with amplitude 25 cm and period 3. The minimum time required for it to move between two points 12.5 cm...
- Two particles are executing simple harmonic motion of the same amplitude A and frequency along the x-axis. Their mean position is...
- A point performs simple harmonic oscillation of period T and the equation of motion is given by x=a ( t+ /6). After the elapse of...
- A point mass is subjected to two simultaneous sinusoidal displacements in x-direction, x_1(t)=A t and x_2(t)=A ( t+ 2 3 ). Adding...
- A simple pendulum is suspended from the celling of a lift. When the lift is at rest, its time period is T. With what acceleration...
- A ideal gas is kept in a cylinder of cross sectional area A and volume V_0. The mass of the gas enclosed is M and bulk modulus B....
- A ball suspended by a thread of length L, at a point O on the wall, forms a small angle with the vertical. Then the thread with...
- When the kinetic energy of a body executing S.H.M. is 1/3 of the potential energy, the displacement of the body is x percent of...
- The P.E. of particle of mass 0.1 kg moving along x-axis is given by U=5x(x-4) J where x is in metres. It can be concluded that...
- A body is executing SHM with an amplitude of 0.1 m. Its velocity while passing through the mean position is 3 m ,s^ -1 . Its...
- The maximum speed of a particle executing SHM is 1 m ,s^ -1 and maximum acceleration is 1.57 m ,s^ -2 . Its frequency is
- A particle of mass 1 kg is moving in SHM with an amplitude 0.02 m and a frequency of 60 Hz. The maximum force (in newton) acting...
- A horizontal plank has a rectangular block placed on it. The plank starts oscillating vertically and simple harmonically with an...
- A body of mass 5 g is executing SHM about a fixed point O. With an amplitude of 10 cm, its maximum velocity is 100 cm ,s^ -1 ....
- The time period of a particle undergoing SHM is 16 s. It starts motion from the mean position. After 2 s, its velocity is 0.4 m...
- A particle executes simple harmonic motion with is amplitude of 4 cm. At the mean position, the velocity of the particle is 10 cm...
- A block is resting on a piston which is moving vertically with SHM of period 1 s. At what amplitude of motion will the block and...
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