Waves questions
1337 published questions with worked solutions.
- An observer is moving with half the speed of light towards a stationary microwave source emitting waves at frequency 10 GHz. What...
- A granite rod of 60 cm length is clamped at its middle point and is set into longitudinal vibrations. The density of granite is...
- The end correction of a resonance column is 1 cm. If the shortest length resonating with the tuning fork is 10 cm, the next...
- Two sitar strings, A and B, playing the note 'Dha' are slightly out of tune and produce beats of frequency 5 Hz. The tension of...
- The pressure wave, P = 0.01 [1000t - 3x] Nm^ -2 , corresponds to the sound produced by vibrating blade on a day when atmospheric...
- A string is clamped at both the ends and it is vibrating in its 4th harmonic. The equation of the stationary wave is Y = 0.3...
- A source of sound S is moving with a velocity of 50 m/s towards a stationary observer. The observer measures the frequency of the...
- A tuning fork vibrates with frequency 256 Hz and gives one beat per second with the third normal mode of vibration of an open...
- 5 beats/second are heard when a tuning fork is sounded with a sonometer wire under tension, when the length of the sonometer wire...
- Two cars A and B are moving away from each other in opposite directions. Both the cars are moving with a speed of 20 ms^ -1 with...
- A string 2.0 m long and fixed at its ends is driven by a 240 Hz vibrator. The string vibrates in its third harmonic mode. The...
- A stationary source emits sound waves of frequency 500 Hz. Two observers moving along a line passing through the source detect...
- A musician using an open flute of length 50 cm produces second harmonic sound waves. A person runs towards the musician from...
- A heavy ball of mass M is suspended from the ceiling of a car by a light string of mass m (m << M). When the car is at rest, the...
- A submarine (A) travelling at 18 km/hr is being chased along the line of its velocity by another submarine (B) travelling at 27...
- A travelling harmonic wave is represented by the equation y(x, t) = 10^ -3 (50t + 2x), where x and y are in meter and t is in...
- Equation of travelling wave on a stretched string of linear density 5 g/m is y = 0.03 sin(450t − 9x) where distance and time are...
- A closed organ pipe has a fundamental frequency of 1.5 kHz. The number of overtones that can be distinctly heard by a person with...
- A train moves towards a stationary observer with speed 34 m/s. The train sounds a whistle and its frequency registered by the...
- A string of length 1 m and mass 5 g is fixed at both ends. The tension in the string is 8.0 N. The string is set into vibration...
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